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{{Infobox film {{Infobox film
| name = Rush Hour 2 | name = Rush Hour 2
| image = Rush Hour 2 poster.jpg | image = Rush Hour 2 poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = ] | director = ]
| producer = Arthur Sarkissian | producer = ]<br>]<br>]<br>]
| writer = ] | writer = '''Screenplay'''<br>]<br>'''Characters created by'''<br>]
| starring = ]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]
| based on = {{based on|Characters created|]}}
| music = ]<br>]<br>Ira Hearshen
| starring = {{Plainlist|
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ] }}
| music = ]
| cinematography = ] | cinematography = ]
| editing = ]<br> Robert K. Lambert | editing = ]<br>Robert K. Lambert
| distributor = ] | distributor = ]
| released = {{Film date|2001|8|2|]|2001|8|3|United States}} | released = {{flagicon|USA}}], ]
| runtime = 90 minutes | runtime = 90 ]
| country = United States | country = ]<br/>]
| language = ]<br>]<br/>]
|language = English
| budget = ~]90,000,000
| budget = $90 million<ref name=BOM/>
| gross = $347,425,832
| gross = $347.3 million<ref name=BOM>{{cite web|title=Rush Hour (2001) |url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=rushhour2.htm|website=]|accessdate=January 30, 2017}}</ref>
| preceded_by = '']'' (1998)
| followed_by = '']'' (2007)
|amg_id= 1:249184
| imdb_id = 0266915
}} }}
'''''Rush Hour 2''''' is a ] ]/] ] ]. This is the ] in the '']''. A ] to the 1998 film '']'', the film stars ] and ] who respectively reprise their roles as Inspector Lee and Los Angeles police detective James Carter. It was more successful at the box-office than its predecessor, a rarity in the film buidness. ''Rush Hour 2'' grossed over $226 million dollars at the box-office, becoming the 5th top grossing film of ]. It is one of the rare sequels to outgross its original. The film finds Lee and Carter embroiled in a counterfeit scam involving the ].


''Rush Hour 2'' was released August 3, 2001 and grossed ]347,325,802 at the worldwide box-office,<ref name="Box Office Mojo - Rush Hour 2">{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=rushhour2.htm |title=Box Office Mojo - Rush Hour 2}}</ref> becoming the 11th top grossing film of 2001 worldwide, the highest grossing live action martial arts film of all time, and the second-highest-grossing martial arts film of all time, behind '']''.<ref name="Action - Martial Arts">{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=martialarts.htm |title=Action - Martial Arts}}</ref>
'''''Rush Hour 2''''' is a 2001 American ] ] ] film. It is the sequel to the 1998 film '']'' and the second installment in the ]. The film stars ] and ] who respectively reprise their roles as Inspector Lee and Detective Carter. The film finds Lee and Carter embroiled in a counterfeit scam involving the ].<ref>{{cite news|title= FILM REVIEW; Making Fun With Feet and Tongue|work= The New York Times|date=August 3, 2001|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/03/movies/film-review-making-fun-with-feet-and-tongue.html?scp=3&sq=rush%20hour%202&st=cse|accessdate=2010-10-24|first=A. O.|last=Scott}}</ref>


'''Taglines:'''
''Rush Hour 2'' was released August 3, 2001 to mixed reviews from critics, but it grossed ]347.3 million at the worldwide box office,<ref name="Box Office Mojo - Rush Hour 2">{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=rushhour2.htm |title=Box Office Mojo - Rush Hour 2}}</ref> becoming the eleventh highest-grossing film of 2001 worldwide. It was also the best-selling film released by ] outside of ] franchise, as well as the highest-grossing martial arts film of all time,<ref name="Action - Martial Arts">{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=martialarts.htm |title=Action - Martial Arts}}</ref> and was followed up with another sequel, '']'', in 2007.
* Get Ready For A Second Rush!
* The Mouth Of The West And The Hands Of The East Are Back!


==Plot== ==Plot==
{{Plot|date=May 2010}}
Four days after the events of '']'', ] detective James Carter is on vacation with his friend, ] Chief Inspector Lee, as he was asked to vacation along with Lee after helping save the Chinese Consul's Han daughter, Soo Yung, in ]. Their leisure is temporarily put on hold as soon as a bomb explodes at the ], ] two undercover ] agents inside of it.<ref>{{Cite journal| editor1-last=Flanagan| editor1-first=Sylvia P.| editor2-last=West| editor2-first=Malcolm R. | publication-date=August 6, 2001 |date=August 2001| title='Rush Hour 2' Star, Talks About Movie And How Fame Is Changing His Life| magazine=JET Magazine| volume=100| issue=8| publisher=Johnson Publication| page=58| issn=0021-5996}}</ref> Inspector Lee is assigned to the case, which becomes personal when it is discovered that it somehow involves Ricky Tan, his late police officer father's former partner. Tan, who was suspected of having a role in elder Lee's death (although never proved), is now a leader of the ]. This, however, causes Lee and Carter to get into a brawl between them and Tan's bodyguards, with Carter becoming shocked with Lee as they were busy with their vacation.
The story of ''Rush Hour 2'' continues from where the original left off, with ] Detective James Carter (]) on a vacation in ], visiting his good friend ] Chief Inspector Lee (]). Carter is interested in having a good time; however, soon after he arrives, a bomb explodes at the ]. Inspector Lee is assigned to the case, which becomes personal when it is discovered that it somehow involves Ricky Tan (]), his late police officer father's former partner. Tan, who was suspected, but never proven, of having a role in Lee's father's death, is now a leader of the ], the mostly deadly gang in all of ].


The ], led by Agent Sterling, and the HKPF soon get into a fight over the ] of the case. Suddenly, the nearby room that Carter was in is bombed, causing Lee to believe he's dead and grieve for him. Carter is revealed to be alive, leaving the room before it exploded. He and a relieved Lee cross paths at Tan's ] where he is holding a dinner party. Tan reprimands his underling, Hu Li, who then leaves as Lee and Carter confront her boss. Just as Tan asks for protection, Hu Li shoots him and makes her escape in the chaos. A furious Sterling holds Lee responsible for Tan's death, and orders him off the case. Carter is ordered back to Los Angeles for involving himself and Lee volunteers to take him to the airport. However, at the airport, Carter gets Lee to return to LA with him. The ], led by Agent Sterling (]), and the ] soon get into a fight over the ] of the case. Sterling believes Ricky Tan is a minor player in a larger conspiracy and wants him left alone so that he will lead them to the people in charge. Lee, believing Tan is actually the head of the operation, learns that Tan will be attending a dinner party on his ]. Tan scolds his underling, Hu Li (]), who then leaves as Lee and Carter confront Tan. Tan claims that someone is trying to frame him. Hu Li suddenly appears and shoots Ricky Tan, and he falls off the boat. In the ensuing chaos, Hu Li escspes, and an angry Sterling holds Lee responsible for Tan's death, and orders him off the case. Carter is ordered to be flown back to ] for involving himself. However, Lee and Carter return to Los Angeles together, seemingly motivated by their desire to bring justice and meaning for their respective father's deaths in the line of duty.


On the plane, Carter tells Lee that in every large criminal operation, there is a rich white man behind it and that man is Steven Reign, a billionaire Los Angeles hotelier whom Carter saw acting suspiciously on Tan's boat. They set up camp outside the Reign Towers, spotting a U.S. Secret Service agent named Isabella Molina, whom Carter met earlier in Hong Kong. After a few misunderstandings, Molina tells the two men that she is undercover, looking into Reign's ] of ]100 million in ]s. On the plane, Carter tells Lee that every case has a rich white a man behind it, and that the man is named Steven Reign (]), a Los Angeles hotel billionaire. Carter says that he saw Reign on Tan's boat and that his calm demeanor during the shooting was suspicious. They set up camp outside the Reign Towers, pointing out a sexy ] agent named Isabella Molina (]), whom Carter met and tried to woo on Ricky Tan's yacht. After they watch Molina undress, and a few misunderstandings, Molina tells the two men that she is undercover, looking into Reign's ] of US$ 100 million dollars in ]s (high grade counterfeit US$ 100 bills).


Lee and Carter pay a visit to Kenny, an ex-con known to Carter who runs a gambling den in the back of his Chinese restaurant. After a short fight, Lee asks Kenny how he got his skills in martial arts. When he mentions Freddy Ching taught him, Lee identifies the latter as Master Ching's brother. Kenny asks Lee why he's around Carter, likening him to ] due to him running his mouth. He tells them that a usually broke customer recently came into his establishment with a suspicious amount of hundred-dollar bills. Carter confirms that they are Reign's counterfeits and they trace the money back to a bank. The mobsters are waiting for them and knock the two cops unconscious, with Molina looking on. After arriving in ], Lee and Carter wake up inside one of the mob's trucks and escape. After finding out where they are, they realize that Reign is laundering the $100 million through the new Red Dragon Casino. Lee and Carter pay a visit to Kenny (]), an ex-con known to Carter who runs an illegal gambling parlor frequented by Asian criminals in the back room of his Chinese restaurant. He tells them that a usually broke customer recently came in to his establishment with a suspicious amount of hundred-dollar bills. Carter checks them out and confirms that they are Reign's counterfeits. They trace the money back to a bank friendly to the Triads, who are waiting for them and knock the two cops unconscious, with Molina looking on. After arriving in ], Lee and Carter wake up inside one of the Triads' trucks and escape. After finding out where they are, they realize that Reign is laundering the $100 million through the new Red Dragon Casino in Vegas.


At the Red Dragon, Lee and Carter separate. Lee attempts to find the engraving plates which were used to make the counterfeit money, while Carter makes a distraction to help Lee sneak past the security. However, Hu Li captures Lee and takes him to a room where it is revealed that Ricky Tan faked his death. When Tan departs, Molina tries to arrest Hu Li but Hu Li easily over-powers her and Molina is shot. Carter distracts Hu Li and knocks her out, while Lee heads to the penthouse to prevent Tan from escaping with the plates. In the penthouse, Reign opens the safe and takes the plates, running into Ricky as he leaves. Reign tries to back out of the deal but Tan stabs him to death. Lee and Carter arrive and a brawl between them and Tan ensues after Tan admits that he killed Lee's father and mocks him for only asking Tan to spare Lee's life before he died. At the Red Dragon, Lee and Carter split up. Carter makes a big commotion and distracts the security forces, while Lee runs into Molina. After convincing Lee, she did not sell him out, he attempts to infiltrate the back area to find the engraving plates (which were used to make the counterfeit money). However, Hu Li captures Lee and places a small bomb in his mouth, and gags him. She then takes him up to the penthouse, where it is revealed that Ricky Tan faked his death and, as Lee suspected, is in charge of the operation. After a few words, he departs, leaving Hu Li to fo whatever she wants.


Molina then takes out a gun, reveals herself as a Secret Service agent and attempts to arrest Hu Like. In the chaos that follows, Hu Li kicks Lee out of the window and he falls out onto the casino floor. Molina and Hu Li then fight, and Molina sweeps the trigger for Lee's bomb out onto the casino floor. Hu Li finally manages to gain the upper hand and shoots Molina in the arm before jumping out onto the casino floor. After a frantic search, Carter and Lee end up together. Carter starts pulling the tape off of Lee's mouth. Lee manages to spit the bomb out seconds before Hu Li finds the trigger to detonates it. Carter then fights Hu Li, while Lee heads to the penthouse to prevent Tan from escaping with the plates.
Tan falls to his death when Lee kicks him out of the window. Hu Li enters with a time bomb forcing Lee and Carter to grab onto the decoration wires. The two narrowly escape on the makeshift zipline as Hu Li kills herself in the explosion. Later, at the airport, Molina thanks Lee for his work on the case, and she kisses him, while Carter watches from afar. Having originally planned to go their separate ways, Lee and Carter change their mind when Carter reveals he won a large amount of money at the casino and the pair decide to head to ] to indulge themselves.


In the penthouse, Reign opens the safe and takes the plates, running into Tan as he leaves. After Reign announces he is cutting their deal short and keeping the plates, Tan stabs him with a knife, killing him. Lee arrives and confronts Tan, taking a gun from Reign's body, along with Carter who shortly appears after having triumphantly (accidentally) knocked Hu Li out. After a tense standoff, where Tan admits he killed Lee's father, Lee knocks the gun away in Carter's direction. As Tan manages to retrieve it and is only seconds away from shooting Carter, Lee kicks Tan out of the window and he tumbles to his death onto a parked car. Hu Li then enters, holding a time bomb. Lee and Carter leap out of the window just as the bomb goes off, sliding on decoration wires with their jackets. The wire snaps, and they swing into a sign for the casino. Their momentum swings them into the path of oncoming traffic. Though Lee's nimble skill and Carter's dumb luck, they narrowly escape being hit by three successive trucks.
==Cast==
*] as Chief Inspector Lee
*] as Detective James Carter
*] as Ricky Tan, a vicious former HKPF ]
*] as Hu Li
*] as U.S. Secret Service Agent Isabella Molina
*] as Steven Reign
*] as U.S. Secret Service Agent Sterling
*] as Hong Kong Police Captain Chin
*] as Receptionist
*] as Girl in Car (as Meiling Melancon)
*] as Girl in Car
*] as Kenny (uncredited)
*] as Kenny's Wife
*] as Zing
*] as Tex
*] as Red Dragon Box Man
*] High Roller Girl
*] as Versace Salesman
*] as Red Dragon Security Guard (uncredited)
*] as Captain William Diel (deleted scenes)
*] as Himself (deleted scenes)


The film ends later, at the airport, Sterling thanks Lee for his work on the case. Molina says she would like to tell Lee something, and proceeds to kiss him for a short time, an event witnessed from afar by Carter. Lee and Carter plan to go their separate ways. Carter to Los Angeles and Lee to Hong Kong. After Isabella heads for her flight, Lee and Carter say one last goodbye. Lee them gives Carter, who at first graciously devlines, his father's police badge, stating that he can finally "let it go." In return, Carter gives Lee $10,000 that he has won from gambling at ]. Lee is more critical in his refusal of the money, but Carter is able to persuade Lee to take the money. After, Lee reveals that he has always wanted to go to ] and watch a ] basketball game. Carter tells Lee he could go for one more vacation, and the two of them decide to take a second vacation - to ], dancing off to Michael Jackson's ].
==Release==
Prior to its August 3 release, ''Rush Hour 2'' was premiered to the public on Thursday, July 26, 2001 on-board ] Flight 1 from ] to ], which was renamed, "The Rush Hour Express".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timewarner.com/newsroom/press-releases/2001/07/12/new-line-cinema-and-united-airlines-team-with-hong-kong-tourism|title=New Line Cinema and United Airlines Team with Hong Kong Tourism Board for In Flight 'Rush Hour 2' Promotion|date=2001-07-12|accessdate=2014-05-10}}</ref> The Hong Kong Board of Tourism teamed up with United Airlines and New Line Cinema in a campaign that offered both trailers for the film for passengers on all domestic United flights during July and August (reaching an expected 3 million people), as well as Hong Kong travel videos to inspire tourists to visit ] where the film was set.


A number of outtakes play during the credits
===Box office===
''Rush Hour 2'' was released in North America on August 3, 2001, playing on 4,500 screens <ref>http://www.boxofficeguru.com/080601.htm</ref> at 3,118 theaters. It opened at #1 with an opening weekend gross of $67.4 million, for an average of $21,619 per theater ($14,980 per screen).<ref>{{cite news|title= Rush Hour 2 Has $67.4-Million Debut|work= Los Angeles Times|date=August 7, 2001|url= http://articles.latimes.com/2001/aug/07/entertainment/ca-31418|accessdate=2010-10-25}}</ref> The film remained in the box office top 10 for a total of ten weeks. It closed on December 20, 2001<ref>http://www.boxofficeguru.com/r2.htm</ref> with a domestic total of $226.2 million, making it the fourth highest-grossing film of 2001 domestically, and the highest-grossing martial arts film at the time.<ref name="Action - Martial Arts"/>


A third movie in the series, '']'', was due in 2007.
The film's total worldwide box office take was $347.3 million, making it the eleventh highest-grossing film of 2001 worldwide.<ref name="Box Office Mojo - Rush Hour 2"/>


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''Rush Hour 2'' outgrossed its predecessor, ''Rush Hour''. This was due to the fact that it had a little more box office longevity and lasted consistently within the domestic box office top ten for roughly two weeks longer than ''Rush Hour''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1998/RUSHH.php |title=Movie Rush Hour - Box Office Data, News, Cast Information |publisher=The Numbers |date= |accessdate=2011-08-30}}</ref> In addition, the hype surrounding ''Rush Hour 2'' helped it maintain high numbers for a longer period of time. After fifty days since its domestic release, ''Rush Hour'' was only {{Abbr|No.|Number}} 10 on the box office charts while comparatively, ''Rush Hour 2'' was still pulling in big audiences after fifty days in theaters and was the {{Abbr|No.|Number}} 2 grossing film domestically.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2001/RUSH2.php |title=Rush Hour 2 Box Office data}}</ref>


===Critical reception=== ==Full Cast==
*] as '''Chief Inspector Lee'''
''Rush Hour 2'' received mixed reviews from critics. On ] the film has an approval rating of 52% based on 127 reviews, with an average rating of 5.5/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "''Rush Hour 2'' doesn't feel as fresh or funny as the first, and the stunts lack some of the intricacy normally seen in Chan's films."<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rush_hour_2|title=Rush Hour 2 (2001)|work=]|accessdate=2017-01-28}}</ref> On ] the film has a score of 48 out of 100, based on 28 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".<ref>http://www.metacritic.com/movie/rush-hour-2</ref> Audiences surveyed by ] gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.<ref name="CinemaScore">{{cite web|url=https://m.cinemascore.com |title=CinemaScore |work=cinemascore.com}}</ref>
*] as '''Detective James Carter''' (] by ])
*] as '''US Secret Service Agent Isabella Molina''' (doubled by Alex Madison)
*] as '''Ricky Tan'''
*] as '''Steven Reign'''
*] as '''US Secret Service Supervisory Agent Sterling'''
*] as '''Hu Li'''
*] as '''Captain Chin'''
*] as '''Receptionist'''
*] as '''Girl in Car'''
*] as '''Girl in Car'''
*] as '''Zing'''
*] as '''Tex'''
*] as '''Tex's girlfriend #1'''
*] as '''Tex's girlfriend #2'''
*] as '''Korean wife in chinese restaurant'''
*] as '''Versace Salesman'''
*] as ''' Waitress in casino'''
*] as '''Gambler'''
*] as '''Gambler'''
*] as '''security guard in Las Vegas''' (as Bradley James Allan) (stunt credits only)
*] as Captian William Diel (scenes deleted)
*] as '''himself''' (scenes deleted)
*] as '''Kenny Crenshaw''' (uncredited)
*] as Heaven On Earth Host (uncredited)
*] as Heaven on Earth Host (uncredited)
*] as the Club Waiteress
*] as the Karaoke Singer
*] as the Massage Parlor Hostess


==Goofs/Trivia==
] gave the film 1.5 out of 4 stars criticizing Chris Tucker: "How can a movie allow to be so obnoxious and make no acknowledgment that his behavior is aberrant?"<ref>{{cite news | last=Ebert | first=Roger| date= August 3, 2001| title=Rush Hour 2 | format=| work=rogerebert.com | url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/rush-hour-2-2001| accessdate=2017-01-28}}</ref>
{{Trivia|date=June 2007}}{{Trivia|date=April 2010}}
*Aside from Lee and Carter, no other characters or actors appear from the first film appear. However, on the DVD release of the film, a deleted scene featured Phillip Baker Hall reprising his role of Captain Diel from the first film. Carter speaks with the Captain about his stay in Hong Kong and his involvement in the Triad case. Director, Brett Ratner states in the ] ] that while he would have loved to include the scene in the final cut (essentially giving Hall a cameo appearance), it did not advance the plot. Therefore, it was left out.


*In the bar in Hong Kong, Carter is singing ] by ].
===Awards===
''Rush Hour 2'' earned a total of 27 award nominations and 10 wins, including an MTV Movie Award for Best Fight, a Teen Choice Award for Film-Choice Actor, Comedy, and 3 Kids' Choice Awards for Favorite Male Butt Kicker (Chan), Favorite Movie Actor (Tucker), and Favorite Movie.{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}}


*The Red Dragon Casino in ], which is owned by Ricky Tan (]) and Steven Reign (]) is actually in real life the ] hotel and casino. There were red lights shined at the hotel to make it a scarlet color. Following the closure of the 50 year old ] property in ] ] by new owner ], the Rush Hour 2 production moved in and redesigned parts of the property as a Chinese themed casino/hotel for the movie. Shortly after the movie wrapped production in Las Vegas, the buildings used in the film were imploded to make way for the new $2.7 billion dollar ] resort. Furthermore, the Red Dragon is the name of another movie that ] directed, as well as the same of a real casino in Mountainlake Terrace, Washington, USA. .
==Sequel==
Because of ], '']'' ended up being released on August 10th, 2007 (6 years after this one was).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rush_hour_3/ |title=Rush Hour 3 |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Rush Hour 3 |publisher=] |url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=main&id=rushhour3.htm |accessdate=2008-03-13}}</ref> In 2007, it was reported that a sequel to the third one, set in ], was in negotiations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=5191 |title="Rush Hour 4" is Set in Moscow}}</ref>


*Prop gaming chips were produced for the film, ranging in demonstrations from $1 to $1,000,000. These are much sought after by both film fans and gaming collectors.
==Soundtrack==
{{Main|Rush Hour 2 (soundtrack)}}
A soundtrack containing hip hop and R&B music was released on July 31, 2001 by ], ] and ]. It peaked at {{Abbr|No.|Number}} 11 on the ] and {{Abbr|No.|Number}} 11 on the ] chart.


*There is a famous scene where Chan and Tucker grab each others hands and swing to kick their friends opponents, it is the same move used by Michael Winslow and Brian Tochi in '']''.
==Home media==
Rush Hour 2 was released on DVD and VHS on December 18, 2001


*When Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan say "I can't believe I flew 10,000 miles for this shit", the actual distance from Los Angeles to Hong Kong is 7,195. *
The only film in the trilogy without a Blu-ray release in the US, a Blu-ray release was originally set to be released in October 2007 in the United States, and December 2007 in the United Kingdom. This was to coincide with the releases of '']'' & '']'' on the same format. For unknown reasons, both dates were pulled from the release schedule.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bva.org.uk/node/533859 |title=Rush Hour 2|publisher=bva.org.uk |accessdate=1 April 2012}}</ref> On ''Blu–ray.com'', it was announced that a Blu–ray was due to be released in the United States on 12 August 2014. It is available for pre–order on ].<ref>{{cite web|title=Rush Hour 2 Blu-ray (Pre-order Up)|url=http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=13729|publisher=blu-ray.com|date=16 April 2014|accessdate=3 August 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Rush Hour 2 Blu-ray (2014)|url=https://www.amazon.com/Rush-Hour-Blu-ray-Jackie-Chan/dp/B00JOTGI8Q|publisher=]|accessdate=15 April 2014}}</ref>


*In the outtake credits, Tucker's phone rang during the last scene and they said that the person on the other line wanted to speak with Jackie Chan.
It was later announced that the Blu–ray release would be delayed until 6 January 2015.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rush Hour 2 Blu-ray|url=http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Rush-Hour-2-Blu-ray/5278/|publisher=blu-ray.com|accessdate=15 April 2014}}</ref> The Blu–ray had again been delayed, this time until 15 September 2015, but was then canceled without announcement. The US version was then re-scheduled for 16 February 2016.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rush Hour 2 New Line Cinema|url=http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Rush-Hour-2-Blu-ray/5278/|publisher=blu-ray.com|accessdate=9 November 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151109143515/http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Rush-Hour-2-Blu-ray/5278/|archivedate=9 November 2015}}</ref> In the PAL regions, the Blu-ray is available to buy on ].<ref>{{cite web|title=Rush Hour 2 Blu-ray New Line Cinema|url=http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Rush-Hour-2-Blu-ray/5278|accessdate=13 January 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Rush Hour 2 Blu-ray New Line Cinema|url=http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Rush-Hour-2-Blu-ray/85511/|accessdate=13 January 2015}}</ref>

*This film festures a casino called The Red Dragon. In 2002, director ] directed ]'s adaptation of ]'s novel '']''.

*Don Cheadle agreed to be in this movie under two conditions: 1. He got to do a fight scene with Jackie Chan, and 2. He got to speak Chinese.

*The scene where Chan and Tucker are in the spa is spoofed in Busta Rhymes' video "Pass the Courvoiser, Part II".

*The movie premiered on 26 July, 2001 on a single Los Angeles to Hong Kong flight by United Airlines and the Hong Kong Tourism Board.

*In an interview, Brett Ratner admitted that the first part of the karaoke scene with Chris Tucker was not supposed to be filmed. Tucker refused to act like Michael Jackson with the cameras running. During takes, he went up as entertainment for everyone. Secretly, Ratner told the cameramen to film it but to not let Tucker notice them.

*Hu Li means "Fox" in Mandarin. The character Hu Li (played by ]) was originally written for a man.

*Ziyi Zhang could not speak English, so she had to take direction via the combination of an interpreter and the director essentially performing "charades". She only speaks in English two times, when she is offering Isabella an apple when going to Las Vegas on the way and when she tells the security guards to leave the room in the Red Dragon Casino. She says "Out!". Her character only says three English words in the movie: "Some apple?" and, later, "Out!" Sometimes the director would tell her what to do and Jackie Chan would translate his directions for her.

*In an interview, Roselyn Sanchez said that Ziyi Zhang tried learning English from her, but tried to discourage her as she would have ended up speaking it with a Hispanic accent.

*The mural on the wall of the Heaven on Earth Massage Parlor was copied from one in '']'' (1983), which Harris Yulin and Brett Ratner appeared in.

*The girl-picking scene came from ''Enter the Dragon'' (1973), which Jackie Chan appeared in.

*The scene where Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker run around naked in the streets was inspired by a scene in '']'' (2001) which Chan made before this movie. Brett Ratner saw the film and decided to include a similar scene in this movie.

*This is one of the many films that were "sweded" in ].

*The scene where Carter and Lee are running down the street naked in Hong Kong was an actual take; production could not block the street off for the shoot.

*Philip Baker Hall filmed a scene reprising his role of Captain Diel from the first Rush Hour movie but it did not make the final cut. It shows Carter talking to his captain on the phone in Los Angeles and Captain Diel reveals while Carter was in Hong Kong Diel was nominated to be the next Police Commissioner of the LAPD but Carter's interference with the Secret Service ruined Diel's chances of getting the job. Diel reappeared in '']''.

*During the boat party that Ricky Tan holds, the song "Tian Mi Mi" can be heard playing in the background. The same song was used in '']'' (1985), a movie which also co-starred John Lone.

*Seasickness helped Roselyn Sanchez feign a lack of enthusiasm for Chris Tucker's advances in the yacht sequence.

*The scene where Carter gets the kosher meal was originally scripted to have Carter ask if Lee "want some of my gefilte fish?" after the stewardess left. But Chris Tucker could not pronounce "gefilte", so the scene never made the final cut (outtakes of this scene are in the end credits, these outtake are referenced to in another plane scene in ''Rush Hour 3'').

*Don Cheadle agreed to do this movie only if he got to fight Jackie Chan and speak Chinese. Don Cheadle had a cameo appearance as Carter's informant in a Chinese restaurant. He was from Brett Ratner's previous movie '']'' (2000).

*Jeremy Piven had a cameo appearance as a Versace salesman. Jeremy Piven was from Brett Ratner's previous movie '']'' (2000).

*The part of the "Red Dragon" hotel was played by the Desert Inn in Las Vegas, Nevada. The sign was changed to read "Red Dragon" and the lower half of the building was painted red for the filming of the movie. The hotel was closed at the time so evidence of the transformation remained for a while. The Desert Inn was demolished on 23 October 2001.

*The climax takes place in the Red Dragon Hotel. '']'' (2002) was Brett Ratner's next film.

*Saul Rubinek had a cameo appearance as a Red Dragon box man. Saul Rubinek was from Brett Ratner's previous movie '']'' (2000).

*The fake cash used in the movie said "In Dog We Trust". Even so, some of it "escaped" from the set and eventually ended up in a few casinos in Las Vegas.

*Several times in the bloopers Tucker accidentally referred to Chan as Jackie instead of Lee.

*Jackie Chan's favorite number is 32. The gangster's car has a license plate of 32 and when Lee spits the grenade onto the roulette table it lands on 32 when it explodes.

*Chris Tucker ad-libbed many different versions of his short speech to Hu Li at the end of their fight. Brett Ratner felt the speech was not working and told Tucker to call her a "bitch". Tucker refused to say the word and it took hours of convincing by Ratner before Tucker finally agreed.

*During the filming of the stunt where Lee and Carter jump from the top window of the Red Dragon hotel then slide down the wires of Chinese Lanterns, a real (i.e. not part of the movie) car chase took place on/through the set. Apparently, a carload of drunken tourists (the set was in Las Vegas) got into an altercation with a taxi driver, and the two cars began a chase that ran down the strip and onto the set, narrowly missing crew members, extras and an enormous crane which held a camera and crew. Fortunately no one was injured; the driver and passengers of the taxi were detained by police.

*The scene was filmed several times with alternative endings, at the end, the Director said to Chris, "Man, she doesn't even know what it means" and that convinced Chris to say it.

*Rush Hour 2 was featured in ]'s "]" video.

*Some of the jokes existent in the first, are reversed in this film. As in Lee being heard to understand, and how you should never touch a man's CD.

*In both ''Rush Hour'' movies, the primary antagonist dies by falling to his death.

*Both films also began in Hong Kong and have ended in the United States airport. This movie is known best for its comedy action and it is a good family movie.

*Another sequel was foreshadowed, when in the credits, afrer, Ricky Tan falls out of the window, Chris Tucker replies with "DAMN! He ain't gona' be in ''Rush Hour 3''!" ''Rush Hour 3'' is slated to be released 6 years after ''Rush Hour 2, in 2007.

*In the scene where Hu Li brings in the bomb into the room, the writers actually wanted to make a 'quiet' scene. It was changed at the last minute.

*The writers originally wanted the casino to be rigged with explosives.

*During the first fighting scene while Chris Tucker was going up the stairs, an old lady gets blocked by him and tells him "Move aside, Kobe.", referring to him as ]. Tucker said on the Jay Leno show that during filming, many locals mistook him for Bryant. (However, in the DVD audio commentary, Ratner states that one of the writers came up with that line shortly before the filming of that scene.)

*The scene where Lee and James Carter are stuck in the truck was originally supposed to be filled with wooden crates, not statues. This version is available on the DVD. However, that didn't really fit the theme, so the writers decided to implement statues of full money.

*The Chinese Themed Casino in the new Rainbow 6:Vegas game for the PC has a Main room in w/ the 2 rows of statues facing each other, just like in Rush Hour 2 (the same room is used in the Tucker/Ziyi fight scene).

*To prevent counterfeiting, the bills in the film were printed "In Dog We Trust". However, several bills were still stopped in the casinos during filming.

*One of the girls in the car shown when Chris Tucker was heading onto the streets was ].

*One of the outtakes Chris Tucker mentioned that after his fall from the window the antagonist (Ricky Tan) is not being around for ''Rush Hour 3''. ''Rush Hour 3'' was released six years later on ], ], where the actor John Lone (Tan) appears briefly as one of the henchmen dressed in white behind Kenji near the beginning of the Eifel Tower Scene.

*In the outtakes for the film, Chris Tucker is shown to habitually refer to Jackie Chan's character Lee as "Jackie" during filming. At one point, a frustrated character shouts, "His name is Lee, goddammit!"

*There are several deleted scenes in this movie.

*In the background, when Carter is up on the stage in the club at the beginning, you can see a TV from the crew visible.

*When Chris Tucker is saying that Asians always panic and points out Godzilla films as a reference, he shouts "Hayaku! Hayaku!" This is actually Japanese, and it means "Faster! Faster!"

*Several times during filming, Chris Tucker forgets Jackie Chan's film name and calls him Jackie instead of Lee.

*There is a guy waiting for a passenger named "Freitag" on the airport, named after the film's producer, James M. Freitag. "Freitag" means "Friday" in German.

*Both the main villan in Rush Hour (Juntao) and the main villan from ''Rush Hour 2'' (Ricky Tan) are killed by falling from a very large height. Junato into a pool. Ricky into a taxi.

*When entering the Red Dragon casino from the sewers when they're police uniforms are on its right time. When they go and but new clothes, the sky is blue. When they have brought their clothes and enter the casino, its suddenly night time again.

*When Lee is sitting in a car, the song "]" by Puff ], starts to play on the radio. We cut away to the caller, and then back apparently in "real time" - but now the song on the radio at its end, although only 3 seconds have passed.

*In the first Rush Hour, at the end of the movie, Carter speaks fluent Chinese. In Rush Hour 2, he has to use a Chinese-English dictionary.

==In Other Media==
*In the ] film ], Jerry (]) and Mike (]) remake their own version of this film, because Jerry erased all the ] tapes at the video store.

==Reception==
After being adjusted for inflation, ''Rush Hour 2'' out-grossed its predecessor ''Rush Hour''. This was due to the fact that it had a little more box-office longevity and lasted consistently within the domestic box-office top 10 for roughly two weeks longer than the first movie. In addition, the hype surrounding the second movie helped it maintain high numbers for a longer period of time. After 50 days since its domestic release, ''Rush Hour'' was only #10 on the box-office charts while comparatively, ''Rush Hour 2'' was still pulling in big audiences after 50 days in theaters and was the #2 grossing film domestically.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2001/RUSH2.php |title=Rush Hour 2 Box Office data}}</ref>

At the time of its opening, ''Rush Hour 2'' had the biggest opening weekend for a comedy of all-time, and the third best non-holiday opening in history.

Prior to its August 3 release, ''Rush Hour 2'' was premiered to the public on Thursday, July 26, 2001 on-board ] Flight 1 from ] to Hong Kong renamed, "The Rush Hour Express". The Hong Kong Board of Tourism teamed up with United Airlines and New Line Cinemas in a campaign that offered both trailers for the movie for passengers on all domestic United flights during July and August reaching an expected 3 million people, as well as Hong Kong travel videos to inspire tourists to visit ] where the movie was set. This promotion is thought to have aided greatly in the success of the film despite lackluster reviews from most critics.

Initial press screenings of ''Rush Hour 2'' indicated the possibility of an even higher grossing movie than the first. As a result, ] and ] distributed it to 3,118 screens across America, 480 more theaters than the first movie. Additional possibilities to the sequels bigger success than its predecessor point to its release date, August 3, which was approximately a month and a half earlier than the release date of the first movie (September 18). Summer releases have long outperformed openings during the other months of the year as movie goers are frequently out of school and have greater amount of time to hit theaters.

The film has earned modest to good reviews, earning 52% on Rotten Tomatoes. Although from the Top Critics, it only received 44% earning it a 'Rotten' review.

It earned a 48 out of 100 on Metacritic.com, which is considered a "mixed or average" film. Jay Carr of The Boston Globe said "It hadn't got a brain in its body, but it's fun to watch." Dana Stevens of The New York Times said "The action and humor are enough to make an hour and a half pass by quickly and pleasantly." Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times said "Tucker's scenes finally wear us down. How can a movie allow him to be so obnoxious and make no acknowledgement that his behavior is aberrant?"

==Box office==
''Rush Hour 2'' opened on August 3, 2001 in 3,118 North American theatres, and it grossed $67,408,222.87 USD ($21,619 per screen) in its opening weekend. It ended its run with $226,164,286.92 USD, making it the fourth highest-grossing movie of 2001 domestically, and the highest-grossing martial arts film of all time, excluding '']'' in 2008, because it is an animated movie whereas ''Rush Hour 2'' is live action.<ref name="Action - Martial Arts"/>

The film's total worldwide box office take was $347,325,802 USD, making it the 11th highest-grossing movie of 2001 worldwide.<ref name="Box Office Mojo - Rush Hour 2"/>

==Awards and nominations==
''Rush Hour 2'' earned a total of 27 award nominations and 10 wins, including an MTV Movie Award for Best Fight, a Teen Choice Award for Film-Choice Actor, Comedy, and 3 Kids' Choice Awards for Favorite Movie Actor for Tucker, Favorite Male Action Hero for Chan, and Favorite Movie.

==Sequel==
Because of various issues during ] and production, '']'' was not released until August 10, 2007—six years after ''Rush Hour 2''. ''Rush Hour 3'' did not receive the critical and commercial acclaim of its predecessors.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rush_hour_3/ |title=Rush Hour 3 |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Rush Hour 3 |publisher=] |url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=main&id=rushhour3.htm |accessdate=2008-03-13}}</ref> A fourth installment in the series is in negotiations, however, and reportedly may be set in ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=5191 |title="Rush Hour 4" is Set in Moscow}}</ref>

==Soundtrack==
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A soundtrack containing hip hop and R&B music was released on July 31, 2001 by ] and ]. It peaked at #11 on the ] and #11 on the ].


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2001 United States film
Rush Hour 2
File:Rush Hour 2 poster.jpg
Directed byBrett Ratner
Written byScreenplay
Jeff Nathanson
Characters created by
Ross LaManna
Produced byRoger Birnbaum
Jonathan Glickman
Arthur Sarkissian
Jay Stern
StarringJackie Chan
Chris Tucker
John Lone
Alan King
Roselyn Sánchez
Harris Yulin
Zhang Ziyi
CinematographyMatthew F. Leonetti
Edited byMark Helfrich
Robert K. Lambert
Music byLalo Schifrin
Nile Rodgers
Ira Hearshen
Distributed byNew Line Cinema
Release datesUnited StatesAugust 3, 2001
Running time90 min
CountriesUnited States
Hong Kong
LanguagesEnglish
Cantonese
Mandarin
Budget~US$90,000,000
Box office$347,425,832

Rush Hour 2 is a 2001 martial arts/action comedy buddy cop film. This is the second installment in the Rush Hour film series. A sequel to the 1998 film Rush Hour, the film stars Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker who respectively reprise their roles as Inspector Lee and Los Angeles police detective James Carter. It was more successful at the box-office than its predecessor, a rarity in the film buidness. Rush Hour 2 grossed over $226 million dollars at the box-office, becoming the 5th top grossing film of 2001. It is one of the rare sequels to outgross its original. The film finds Lee and Carter embroiled in a counterfeit scam involving the Triads.

Rush Hour 2 was released August 3, 2001 and grossed $347,325,802 at the worldwide box-office, becoming the 11th top grossing film of 2001 worldwide, the highest grossing live action martial arts film of all time, and the second-highest-grossing martial arts film of all time, behind Kung Fu Panda.

Taglines:

  • Get Ready For A Second Rush!
  • The Mouth Of The West And The Hands Of The East Are Back!

Plot

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The story of Rush Hour 2 continues from where the original left off, with L.A.P.D. Detective James Carter (Chris Tucker) on a vacation in Hong Kong, visiting his good friend Hong Kong Police Force Chief Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan). Carter is interested in having a good time; however, soon after he arrives, a bomb explodes at the American Consulate. Inspector Lee is assigned to the case, which becomes personal when it is discovered that it somehow involves Ricky Tan (John Lone), his late police officer father's former partner. Tan, who was suspected, but never proven, of having a role in Lee's father's death, is now a leader of the Triads, the mostly deadly gang in all of China.

The United States Secret Service, led by Agent Sterling (Harris Yulin), and the Hong Kong Police Force soon get into a fight over the jurisdiction of the case. Sterling believes Ricky Tan is a minor player in a larger conspiracy and wants him left alone so that he will lead them to the people in charge. Lee, believing Tan is actually the head of the operation, learns that Tan will be attending a dinner party on his yacht. Tan scolds his underling, Hu Li (Zhang Ziyi), who then leaves as Lee and Carter confront Tan. Tan claims that someone is trying to frame him. Hu Li suddenly appears and shoots Ricky Tan, and he falls off the boat. In the ensuing chaos, Hu Li escspes, and an angry Sterling holds Lee responsible for Tan's death, and orders him off the case. Carter is ordered to be flown back to Los Angeles for involving himself. However, Lee and Carter return to Los Angeles together, seemingly motivated by their desire to bring justice and meaning for their respective father's deaths in the line of duty.

On the plane, Carter tells Lee that every case has a rich white a man behind it, and that the man is named Steven Reign (Alan King), a Los Angeles hotel billionaire. Carter says that he saw Reign on Tan's boat and that his calm demeanor during the shooting was suspicious. They set up camp outside the Reign Towers, pointing out a sexy Secret Service agent named Isabella Molina (Roselyn Sánchez), whom Carter met and tried to woo on Ricky Tan's yacht. After they watch Molina undress, and a few misunderstandings, Molina tells the two men that she is undercover, looking into Reign's money laundering of US$ 100 million dollars in superdollars (high grade counterfeit US$ 100 bills).

Lee and Carter pay a visit to Kenny (Don Cheadle), an ex-con known to Carter who runs an illegal gambling parlor frequented by Asian criminals in the back room of his Chinese restaurant. He tells them that a usually broke customer recently came in to his establishment with a suspicious amount of hundred-dollar bills. Carter checks them out and confirms that they are Reign's counterfeits. They trace the money back to a bank friendly to the Triads, who are waiting for them and knock the two cops unconscious, with Molina looking on. After arriving in Las Vegas, Lee and Carter wake up inside one of the Triads' trucks and escape. After finding out where they are, they realize that Reign is laundering the $100 million through the new Red Dragon Casino in Vegas.

At the Red Dragon, Lee and Carter split up. Carter makes a big commotion and distracts the security forces, while Lee runs into Molina. After convincing Lee, she did not sell him out, he attempts to infiltrate the back area to find the engraving plates (which were used to make the counterfeit money). However, Hu Li captures Lee and places a small bomb in his mouth, and gags him. She then takes him up to the penthouse, where it is revealed that Ricky Tan faked his death and, as Lee suspected, is in charge of the operation. After a few words, he departs, leaving Hu Li to fo whatever she wants.

Molina then takes out a gun, reveals herself as a Secret Service agent and attempts to arrest Hu Like. In the chaos that follows, Hu Li kicks Lee out of the window and he falls out onto the casino floor. Molina and Hu Li then fight, and Molina sweeps the trigger for Lee's bomb out onto the casino floor. Hu Li finally manages to gain the upper hand and shoots Molina in the arm before jumping out onto the casino floor. After a frantic search, Carter and Lee end up together. Carter starts pulling the tape off of Lee's mouth. Lee manages to spit the bomb out seconds before Hu Li finds the trigger to detonates it. Carter then fights Hu Li, while Lee heads to the penthouse to prevent Tan from escaping with the plates.

In the penthouse, Reign opens the safe and takes the plates, running into Tan as he leaves. After Reign announces he is cutting their deal short and keeping the plates, Tan stabs him with a knife, killing him. Lee arrives and confronts Tan, taking a gun from Reign's body, along with Carter who shortly appears after having triumphantly (accidentally) knocked Hu Li out. After a tense standoff, where Tan admits he killed Lee's father, Lee knocks the gun away in Carter's direction. As Tan manages to retrieve it and is only seconds away from shooting Carter, Lee kicks Tan out of the window and he tumbles to his death onto a parked car. Hu Li then enters, holding a time bomb. Lee and Carter leap out of the window just as the bomb goes off, sliding on decoration wires with their jackets. The wire snaps, and they swing into a sign for the casino. Their momentum swings them into the path of oncoming traffic. Though Lee's nimble skill and Carter's dumb luck, they narrowly escape being hit by three successive trucks.

The film ends later, at the airport, Sterling thanks Lee for his work on the case. Molina says she would like to tell Lee something, and proceeds to kiss him for a short time, an event witnessed from afar by Carter. Lee and Carter plan to go their separate ways. Carter to Los Angeles and Lee to Hong Kong. After Isabella heads for her flight, Lee and Carter say one last goodbye. Lee them gives Carter, who at first graciously devlines, his father's police badge, stating that he can finally "let it go." In return, Carter gives Lee $10,000 that he has won from gambling at Ceaser's Palace. Lee is more critical in his refusal of the money, but Carter is able to persuade Lee to take the money. After, Lee reveals that he has always wanted to go to Madison Square Garden and watch a New York Knicks basketball game. Carter tells Lee he could go for one more vacation, and the two of them decide to take a second vacation - to Big Apple, dancing off to Michael Jackson's Don't Stop Til You Get Enough.

A number of outtakes play during the credits

A third movie in the series, Rush Hour 3, was due in 2007.

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Goofs/Trivia

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  • Aside from Lee and Carter, no other characters or actors appear from the first film appear. However, on the DVD release of the film, a deleted scene featured Phillip Baker Hall reprising his role of Captain Diel from the first film. Carter speaks with the Captain about his stay in Hong Kong and his involvement in the Triad case. Director, Brett Ratner states in the DVD audio commentary that while he would have loved to include the scene in the final cut (essentially giving Hall a cameo appearance), it did not advance the plot. Therefore, it was left out.
  • The Red Dragon Casino in Las Vegas, which is owned by Ricky Tan (John Lone) and Steven Reign (Alan King) is actually in real life the Desert Inn hotel and casino. There were red lights shined at the hotel to make it a scarlet color. Following the closure of the 50 year old Las Vegas Strip property in August 2000 by new owner Steve Wynn, the Rush Hour 2 production moved in and redesigned parts of the property as a Chinese themed casino/hotel for the movie. Shortly after the movie wrapped production in Las Vegas, the buildings used in the film were imploded to make way for the new $2.7 billion dollar Wynn Las Vegas resort. Furthermore, the Red Dragon is the name of another movie that Brett Ratner directed, as well as the same of a real casino in Mountainlake Terrace, Washington, USA. .
  • Prop gaming chips were produced for the film, ranging in demonstrations from $1 to $1,000,000. These are much sought after by both film fans and gaming collectors.
  • There is a famous scene where Chan and Tucker grab each others hands and swing to kick their friends opponents, it is the same move used by Michael Winslow and Brian Tochi in Police Academy 3: Back in Training.
  • When Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan say "I can't believe I flew 10,000 miles for this shit", the actual distance from Los Angeles to Hong Kong is 7,195. *
  • In the outtake credits, Tucker's phone rang during the last scene and they said that the person on the other line wanted to speak with Jackie Chan.
  • Don Cheadle agreed to be in this movie under two conditions: 1. He got to do a fight scene with Jackie Chan, and 2. He got to speak Chinese.
  • The scene where Chan and Tucker are in the spa is spoofed in Busta Rhymes' video "Pass the Courvoiser, Part II".
  • The movie premiered on 26 July, 2001 on a single Los Angeles to Hong Kong flight by United Airlines and the Hong Kong Tourism Board.
  • In an interview, Brett Ratner admitted that the first part of the karaoke scene with Chris Tucker was not supposed to be filmed. Tucker refused to act like Michael Jackson with the cameras running. During takes, he went up as entertainment for everyone. Secretly, Ratner told the cameramen to film it but to not let Tucker notice them.
  • Hu Li means "Fox" in Mandarin. The character Hu Li (played by Zhang Ziyi) was originally written for a man.
  • Ziyi Zhang could not speak English, so she had to take direction via the combination of an interpreter and the director essentially performing "charades". She only speaks in English two times, when she is offering Isabella an apple when going to Las Vegas on the way and when she tells the security guards to leave the room in the Red Dragon Casino. She says "Out!". Her character only says three English words in the movie: "Some apple?" and, later, "Out!" Sometimes the director would tell her what to do and Jackie Chan would translate his directions for her.
  • In an interview, Roselyn Sanchez said that Ziyi Zhang tried learning English from her, but tried to discourage her as she would have ended up speaking it with a Hispanic accent.
  • The mural on the wall of the Heaven on Earth Massage Parlor was copied from one in Scarface (1983), which Harris Yulin and Brett Ratner appeared in.
  • The girl-picking scene came from Enter the Dragon (1973), which Jackie Chan appeared in.
  • The scene where Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker run around naked in the streets was inspired by a scene in The Accidental Spy (2001) which Chan made before this movie. Brett Ratner saw the film and decided to include a similar scene in this movie.
  • The scene where Carter and Lee are running down the street naked in Hong Kong was an actual take; production could not block the street off for the shoot.
  • Philip Baker Hall filmed a scene reprising his role of Captain Diel from the first Rush Hour movie but it did not make the final cut. It shows Carter talking to his captain on the phone in Los Angeles and Captain Diel reveals while Carter was in Hong Kong Diel was nominated to be the next Police Commissioner of the LAPD but Carter's interference with the Secret Service ruined Diel's chances of getting the job. Diel reappeared in Rush Hour 3.
  • During the boat party that Ricky Tan holds, the song "Tian Mi Mi" can be heard playing in the background. The same song was used in Year of the Dragon (1985), a movie which also co-starred John Lone.
  • Seasickness helped Roselyn Sanchez feign a lack of enthusiasm for Chris Tucker's advances in the yacht sequence.
  • The scene where Carter gets the kosher meal was originally scripted to have Carter ask if Lee "want some of my gefilte fish?" after the stewardess left. But Chris Tucker could not pronounce "gefilte", so the scene never made the final cut (outtakes of this scene are in the end credits, these outtake are referenced to in another plane scene in Rush Hour 3).
  • Don Cheadle agreed to do this movie only if he got to fight Jackie Chan and speak Chinese. Don Cheadle had a cameo appearance as Carter's informant in a Chinese restaurant. He was from Brett Ratner's previous movie The Family Man (2000).
  • Jeremy Piven had a cameo appearance as a Versace salesman. Jeremy Piven was from Brett Ratner's previous movie The Family Man (2000).
  • The part of the "Red Dragon" hotel was played by the Desert Inn in Las Vegas, Nevada. The sign was changed to read "Red Dragon" and the lower half of the building was painted red for the filming of the movie. The hotel was closed at the time so evidence of the transformation remained for a while. The Desert Inn was demolished on 23 October 2001.
  • The climax takes place in the Red Dragon Hotel. Red Dragon (2002) was Brett Ratner's next film.
  • Saul Rubinek had a cameo appearance as a Red Dragon box man. Saul Rubinek was from Brett Ratner's previous movie The Family Man (2000).
  • The fake cash used in the movie said "In Dog We Trust". Even so, some of it "escaped" from the set and eventually ended up in a few casinos in Las Vegas.
  • Several times in the bloopers Tucker accidentally referred to Chan as Jackie instead of Lee.
  • Jackie Chan's favorite number is 32. The gangster's car has a license plate of 32 and when Lee spits the grenade onto the roulette table it lands on 32 when it explodes.
  • Chris Tucker ad-libbed many different versions of his short speech to Hu Li at the end of their fight. Brett Ratner felt the speech was not working and told Tucker to call her a "bitch". Tucker refused to say the word and it took hours of convincing by Ratner before Tucker finally agreed.
  • During the filming of the stunt where Lee and Carter jump from the top window of the Red Dragon hotel then slide down the wires of Chinese Lanterns, a real (i.e. not part of the movie) car chase took place on/through the set. Apparently, a carload of drunken tourists (the set was in Las Vegas) got into an altercation with a taxi driver, and the two cars began a chase that ran down the strip and onto the set, narrowly missing crew members, extras and an enormous crane which held a camera and crew. Fortunately no one was injured; the driver and passengers of the taxi were detained by police.
  • The scene was filmed several times with alternative endings, at the end, the Director said to Chris, "Man, she doesn't even know what it means" and that convinced Chris to say it.
  • Some of the jokes existent in the first, are reversed in this film. As in Lee being heard to understand, and how you should never touch a man's CD.
  • In both Rush Hour movies, the primary antagonist dies by falling to his death.
  • Both films also began in Hong Kong and have ended in the United States airport. This movie is known best for its comedy action and it is a good family movie.
  • Another sequel was foreshadowed, when in the credits, afrer, Ricky Tan falls out of the window, Chris Tucker replies with "DAMN! He ain't gona' be in Rush Hour 3!" Rush Hour 3 is slated to be released 6 years after Rush Hour 2, in 2007.
  • In the scene where Hu Li brings in the bomb into the room, the writers actually wanted to make a 'quiet' scene. It was changed at the last minute.
  • The writers originally wanted the casino to be rigged with explosives.
  • During the first fighting scene while Chris Tucker was going up the stairs, an old lady gets blocked by him and tells him "Move aside, Kobe.", referring to him as Kobe Bryant. Tucker said on the Jay Leno show that during filming, many locals mistook him for Bryant. (However, in the DVD audio commentary, Ratner states that one of the writers came up with that line shortly before the filming of that scene.)
  • The scene where Lee and James Carter are stuck in the truck was originally supposed to be filled with wooden crates, not statues. This version is available on the DVD. However, that didn't really fit the theme, so the writers decided to implement statues of full money.
  • The Chinese Themed Casino in the new Rainbow 6:Vegas game for the PC has a Main room in w/ the 2 rows of statues facing each other, just like in Rush Hour 2 (the same room is used in the Tucker/Ziyi fight scene).
  • To prevent counterfeiting, the bills in the film were printed "In Dog We Trust". However, several bills were still stopped in the casinos during filming.
  • One of the girls in the car shown when Chris Tucker was heading onto the streets was Maggie Q.
  • One of the outtakes Chris Tucker mentioned that after his fall from the window the antagonist (Ricky Tan) is not being around for Rush Hour 3. Rush Hour 3 was released six years later on August 10, 2007, where the actor John Lone (Tan) appears briefly as one of the henchmen dressed in white behind Kenji near the beginning of the Eifel Tower Scene.
  • In the outtakes for the film, Chris Tucker is shown to habitually refer to Jackie Chan's character Lee as "Jackie" during filming. At one point, a frustrated character shouts, "His name is Lee, goddammit!"
  • There are several deleted scenes in this movie.
  • In the background, when Carter is up on the stage in the club at the beginning, you can see a TV from the crew visible.
  • When Chris Tucker is saying that Asians always panic and points out Godzilla films as a reference, he shouts "Hayaku! Hayaku!" This is actually Japanese, and it means "Faster! Faster!"
  • Several times during filming, Chris Tucker forgets Jackie Chan's film name and calls him Jackie instead of Lee.
  • There is a guy waiting for a passenger named "Freitag" on the airport, named after the film's producer, James M. Freitag. "Freitag" means "Friday" in German.
  • Both the main villan in Rush Hour (Juntao) and the main villan from Rush Hour 2 (Ricky Tan) are killed by falling from a very large height. Junato into a pool. Ricky into a taxi.
  • When entering the Red Dragon casino from the sewers when they're police uniforms are on its right time. When they go and but new clothes, the sky is blue. When they have brought their clothes and enter the casino, its suddenly night time again.
  • When Lee is sitting in a car, the song "I'll Be Missing You" by Puff Diddy, starts to play on the radio. We cut away to the caller, and then back apparently in "real time" - but now the song on the radio at its end, although only 3 seconds have passed.
  • In the first Rush Hour, at the end of the movie, Carter speaks fluent Chinese. In Rush Hour 2, he has to use a Chinese-English dictionary.

In Other Media

Reception

After being adjusted for inflation, Rush Hour 2 out-grossed its predecessor Rush Hour. This was due to the fact that it had a little more box-office longevity and lasted consistently within the domestic box-office top 10 for roughly two weeks longer than the first movie. In addition, the hype surrounding the second movie helped it maintain high numbers for a longer period of time. After 50 days since its domestic release, Rush Hour was only #10 on the box-office charts while comparatively, Rush Hour 2 was still pulling in big audiences after 50 days in theaters and was the #2 grossing film domestically.

At the time of its opening, Rush Hour 2 had the biggest opening weekend for a comedy of all-time, and the third best non-holiday opening in history.

Prior to its August 3 release, Rush Hour 2 was premiered to the public on Thursday, July 26, 2001 on-board United Airlines Flight 1 from Los Angeles to Hong Kong renamed, "The Rush Hour Express". The Hong Kong Board of Tourism teamed up with United Airlines and New Line Cinemas in a campaign that offered both trailers for the movie for passengers on all domestic United flights during July and August reaching an expected 3 million people, as well as Hong Kong travel videos to inspire tourists to visit China where the movie was set. This promotion is thought to have aided greatly in the success of the film despite lackluster reviews from most critics.

Initial press screenings of Rush Hour 2 indicated the possibility of an even higher grossing movie than the first. As a result, New Line Cinema and TriStar Pictures distributed it to 3,118 screens across America, 480 more theaters than the first movie. Additional possibilities to the sequels bigger success than its predecessor point to its release date, August 3, which was approximately a month and a half earlier than the release date of the first movie (September 18). Summer releases have long outperformed openings during the other months of the year as movie goers are frequently out of school and have greater amount of time to hit theaters.

The film has earned modest to good reviews, earning 52% on Rotten Tomatoes. Although from the Top Critics, it only received 44% earning it a 'Rotten' review.

It earned a 48 out of 100 on Metacritic.com, which is considered a "mixed or average" film. Jay Carr of The Boston Globe said "It hadn't got a brain in its body, but it's fun to watch." Dana Stevens of The New York Times said "The action and humor are enough to make an hour and a half pass by quickly and pleasantly." Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times said "Tucker's scenes finally wear us down. How can a movie allow him to be so obnoxious and make no acknowledgement that his behavior is aberrant?"

Box office

Rush Hour 2 opened on August 3, 2001 in 3,118 North American theatres, and it grossed $67,408,222.87 USD ($21,619 per screen) in its opening weekend. It ended its run with $226,164,286.92 USD, making it the fourth highest-grossing movie of 2001 domestically, and the highest-grossing martial arts film of all time, excluding Kung-Fu Panda in 2008, because it is an animated movie whereas Rush Hour 2 is live action.

The film's total worldwide box office take was $347,325,802 USD, making it the 11th highest-grossing movie of 2001 worldwide.

Awards and nominations

Rush Hour 2 earned a total of 27 award nominations and 10 wins, including an MTV Movie Award for Best Fight, a Teen Choice Award for Film-Choice Actor, Comedy, and 3 Kids' Choice Awards for Favorite Movie Actor for Tucker, Favorite Male Action Hero for Chan, and Favorite Movie.

Sequel

Because of various issues during development hell and production, Rush Hour 3 was not released until August 10, 2007—six years after Rush Hour 2. Rush Hour 3 did not receive the critical and commercial acclaim of its predecessors. A fourth installment in the series is in negotiations, however, and reportedly may be set in Moscow.

Soundtrack

Main article: Rush Hour 2 (soundtrack)

A soundtrack containing hip hop and R&B music was released on July 31, 2001 by Hollywood Records and Epic Records. It peaked at #11 on the Billboard 200 and #11 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Box Office Mojo - Rush Hour 2".
  2. ^ "Action - Martial Arts".
  3. "Rush Hour 2 Box Office data".
  4. "Rush Hour 3". Rotten Tomatoes.
  5. "Rush Hour 3". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2008-03-13.
  6. ""Rush Hour 4" is Set in Moscow".

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