Runtime: 91 minutes
Directed by: Brett Ratner
Starring: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Max von Sydow, Hiroyuki Sanada, Yvan Attal
From: New Line Cinema
Yep, this was as terrible as I remembered. The only time before Saturday night that this was watched was on the big screen back in 2007; even then, I found the story to be terribly disjointed with such an idiot plot (why exactly did they have Carter and Lee fight one of the world’s tallest people in Sun Ming Ming? There was no good reason for it), a totally unbearable Chris Tucker that was extremely sexist & racist, and the presence of a certain director in a small role that even then seemed like a bad idea.
Now, I was appalled at how stupid the fragmented plot was, Carter’s nonstop comments about a bald woman “being a man” is FAR worse now than it was then, the movie is far less funny than the first two, and then there’s Roman Polanski… his small role as a French police commissioner who loves body cavity searches is a gigantic YIKES in 2023. This is just an assumption but Brett Ratner must have wanted Polanski in the movie because he’s a fan and well, insert your own assumptions if you wish.
The ”story” as is revolves around catching some bad guys in Paris… it’s a lot of nonsense best not elaborated upon in detail. The action isn’t bad, except when it’s really dopey and/or features lousy CGI. The “comedy”—Tucker’s racism, sexism and even transphobia is the “highlight” there. That and everything else is clearly inferior to the first two in this crappy motion picture. Not even Chan’s charms and Max von Sydow could save this waste of time that I’ve already forgotten large chunks of since Saturday.
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