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Name: Rush Hour 2
Director: Brett Ratner
Genre: action, comedy, crime
Released: 2001
Duration: 1 h 30 min
Rating: 6.7

Rush Hour 2 has an iRankMovies score of 58.8/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Rush Hour 2 (2001)

Get ready for a second Rush!

Release:2001

Runtime:1h 30m

Country:United States

Director:Brett Ratner

Language:English

Genre

ActionComedyCrime

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Keywords

Martial Arts Los Angeles CaliforniaCriminal InvestigationInterracial FriendshipBuddy CopDuringcreditsstingerAction HeroGood Versus Evil

iRank59

Rush Hour 2 rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb6.7/10· 257K votes

Rotten Tomatoes50%

Metacritic48%

TMDb6.764/10· 5K votes

With 50% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 6.7/10 on IMDb and 48/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.

About Rush Hour 2

It's vacation time for Carter as he finds himself alongside Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excitement. While Carter wants to party and meet the ladies, Lee is out to track down a Triad gang lord who may be responsible for killing two men at the American Embassy. Things get complicated as the pair stumble onto a counterfeiting plot. The boys are soon up to their necks in fist fights and life-threatening situations. A trip back to the U.S. may provide the answers about the bombing, the counterfeiting, and the true allegiance of sexy customs agent Isabella.

Cast of Rush Hour 2

Jackie Chan
as Yan Naing Lee
Chris Tucker
as James Carter
John Lone
as Ricky Tan
Roselyn Sánchez
as Isabella Molina
Zhang Ziyi
as Hu Li
Alan King
as Steve Reign
Harris Yulin
as Agent Sterling
Kenneth Tsang
as Captain Chin
Lisa LoCicero
as Receptionist
Meiling Melançon
as Girl in Car
Maggie Q
as Girl in Car
L
Lucy Lin
as Heaven on Earth Hostess

Rush Hour 2 facts

Budget: $90M
Box office: $347.3M
Collection: Rush Hour Collection

Our take on Rush Hour 2

Brett Ratner's 2001 sequel trades Los Angeles for Hong Kong, where Carter hopes to party while Lee hunts a Triad boss possibly behind a deadly Embassy bombing. What starts as a vacation quickly tangles into a counterfeiting plot, fist fights and life-threatening scrapes, with the mismatched duo's fast talk driving the fun. It leans hard on buddy-comedy chemistry and choreographed action, keeping the pace loose and the stakes deliberately light. This suits viewers after an unpretentious action-comedy built on banter and set pieces rather than plot. If you enjoyed the first film's odd-couple rhythm, the sequel delivers more of that easygoing, globe-trotting energy.

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