1998 · action · comedy · crime
Rush Hour
Directed by Brett Ratner1h 37m1998
When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the sidelines, Lee and Carter form an unlikely partnership and investigate the case themselves.
Our read: Rush Hour (1998) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded action · comedy · crime entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured action / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
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- twisty
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