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I am VEY surprised to say this, but # 2 could have easily been a 4/5 with A FREAKING SCRIPT.
The only real high points in this movie are the stunts and Zihi Zhang. And they both are shown repeatedly. it was nice to see Zihi star in a different role than the period pieces she's been glued to(Daggers, Hero, Musa, Crouching Dragon), she really shines in what she was given here. So not NEARLY as funny as the first, but still a good movie. <
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>Now another BIG problem I had with this movie was the lack of hand-to hand full view. The only fighting was close-ups on hand and really not what I wanted to see. I wanna see Jackie show people doing the long-range kungfu that was a staple for about 25 years. i can't stand seeing people fight, but never actually SEEING THEM.

RH2: A Fine Blend of Sight & Sound
When RUSH HOUR hit the video market, fans of Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker were treated to a melding of the Bob Newhart-type repressesed humor of the former with the inner city boogalooing of the latter. This odd pairing of distinctive types of comedy was such a hit that RUSH HOUR 2 was a foregone conclusion. Director Brett Ratner wisely allowed roughly equal time for both Chan and Tucker to play their essential screen personas with each bouncing off the other for most of the film. This was no fish out of water film for Tucker even though he spent considerable time partnering with Chan to investigate a double murder of American agents in Hong Kong. The plot was more complex than one might have otherwise found in a road buddy movie whose emphasis was more on sight and sound than on logic. <
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> Tucker is James Carter an LA cop on vacation with Chan as Chief Inspector Lee of the HK police, both of whom reprise their roles from the original. Little by little, both realize that the murder of the two American agents is not just a mob rub out of suspected turncoats. Instead, they begin to piece together several disparate threads of plotlines, some of which carry over from the first RH. Lee seeks justice for the murder of his father and the most likely suspect is Ricky Tan, well played by John Lone, an Asian American actor who has spent a lifetime perfecting an oily aura of menace. Although the titular stars are Tucker and Chan, Lone steals more than a few scenes with his ability to charm you with an elegant twinkle of his eye--just before he blows you away with a demure physicality that in its own way complements the explosive kinetic energy of Chan. Director Ratner has many scenes of Chan and Tucker bouncing off, around, and through an eye popping series of obstacles, several of which involve Lone and his lovely killer lady, Hu Li (Ziyi Zhang). The viewer barely has time to catch his breath after watching beautiful women like Zhang and an equally lovely Roselyn Sanchez, whose loyalties are never quite clear until the final reel. Despite the extreme illogic of both stars' ability to escape unscathed from the destructive fury of Lone and Zhang, one never loses sight that RUSH HOUR 2 is one of the funniest and surprisingly enough cerebral meldings of sight and sound ever filmed. It is almost quibbling to note that Tucker more than once utters a few off color ethnic jokes that are decidedly politically incorrect. If one wishes to laugh and gasp and is never sure which reaction follows which, then RUSH HOUR 2 is the cinematic equivalent of a night on the town in Hong Kong, one of the most stimulating cities on Earth.