Year: 1998
Plot: Although dwarfed by the commercial success of its 2001 sequel, the original Rush Hour contains some of the finest quipping, stunting and face-pounding in the massively popular series.
Chan - once again playing a Hong Kong cop - arrives in Los Angeles to fill a newly-created diplomatic post, but soon finds himself drawn to the real action. Arrogant FBI wannabe Chris Tucker is assigned to partner Chan, essentially to keep our kigh-kicking troublemaker away from it. Guess whose plan they end up going with...?
Trivia: A fair few of the sight gags and one-liners in Rush Hour are in fact recycled from earlier Hong Kong-based Chan flicks - director Brett Ratner, a lifelong fan, reckoned his knowledge of the star's back catalogue was specialised enough that people might not really notice. We kinda did, but hey...no serious complaints here.
Check out the Total Film page on Chan's latest, The Karate Kid (2010), over here.
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Serrano
Jul 30th 2010, 16:24
Fantasy Mission Force is easily my favourite Jackie Chan film. I am not kidding.
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Hadouken76
Aug 1st 2010, 10:03
Armour of God 1 & 2, Snake in the Eagles shadow. Classic Chan.
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hago1
Aug 1st 2010, 10:47
No mention of Shanghai Noon/Shanghai Knights?
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Carl1984
Aug 1st 2010, 23:13
I am a self proclaimed massive fan of Jackie's I have every one of his films (some more then once), I also have his Hong Kong albums, books, magazines, posters ect anyway about this list I agree with some of the worst ones for instance Police Woman (A.K.A Rumble In Hong Kong) and Fantasy Mission Force deserve to be in the wost list completely also sorry to say so does The Tuxedo and The Medallion if them two had a better story they wouldn't be there. The other three Half A Loaf Of Kung Fu, Master With Cracked Fingers and Battle Creek Brawl (A.K.A The Big Brawl) don't deserve to be there. You've missed a few off the best list i.e New Police Story, The Myth, Rob-B-Hood and Shinjuku Incident. As for Drunken Master 2 it does deserve to be in the best list but the only thing that annoys me is it has never been released in the UK and I've never found a reason why.
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