RUSH HOUR 3 Film Review - 8/9/07

Seeing as it's the year of the threequel (and numerous other sequels) I wanted to catch this as I had seen the first two films and they were pretty much brainless just like this was. All the formulaic Jackie Chan schtick is here with the lame jokes (mostly crude) coming from Chris Tucker then the bloopers reel as the Credits roll. The story (what little there is) concerns the machinations of the evil Triads as Chan & Tucker travel to Paris to foil their nefarious schemes. Chuck in a car chase, some comedy martial arts and a scene in a nightclub (which obviously Tucker & Chan INSISTED being written into their contracts) with them both singing excruciatingly like cats, then kill off all the bad guys ( I had already within ten minutes into the film twigged who the head bad guy was) and end with obligatory happy ending. Certainly not as good as some of the other films that Jackie Chan has made but okay if you want to waste an hour or two when you have nothing else better to do.