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{{smallcaps|Rush Hour}} (1998)
Hong Kong, the last night of British rulership. Detective Inspector Lee (Jackie), close friend to Consul Han, manages to prevent precious pieces of China's history being smuggled out of the country. Two months later, when Consul Han is living in Los Angeles with his family, Crime Lord Juntao takes revenge on him by abducting his young daughter Soo Yung. Han does not trust the FBI to do a good job and has Lee flown in from Hong Kong to assist them.
Because they don't want a foreign officer on their case, the FBI requests help from LAPD to "babysit" Lee - who gladly use the opportunity to get rid of Detective James Carter (Chris), a big-mouthed work-alone cop who just can't be cool enough. His assignment is to keep Lee as far away from trouble as possible. But Carter and Lee don't like being put aside in that way and start working the case on their own.
The first movie was a major success and became the 7th top grossing film of 1998, with a gross of over $140 million dollars at the U.S. box office. The combination of motor-mouthed Tucker with Chan's gravity defying stunts proved to be a winning combination, in no small part due to Chan's movies being mostly comedies anyway.
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{{smallcaps|Rush Hour 2}} (2001)
Lee and Carter are back! This time they're together in Hong Kong. Carter wants a relaxing vacation but Lee just wants to do police work. At a night club, Lee spots an evil agent named Ricky Tan, who runs an gang of counterfeiters, and his partner is a woman who delivers packages containing bombs. Lee and Carter follow these two aboard a boat where their attempted bust really backfires.
But following some hunches Lee and Carter fly back to Los Angeles where they meet a woman in the Secret Service who directs them on how to find the counterfeiters. Like the first movie, she was trying to get them out of her way but Lee and Carter again find the right chain of evidence that takes them to Las Vegas and the perfect money-laundering location.
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{{smallcaps|Rush Hour 3}} (2007)
After an attempted assassination on Ambassador Han, Inspector Lee and Detective Carter are back in action as they head to Paris to protect a French woman with knowledge of the Triads' secret leaders. Lee also holds secret meetings with a United Nations authority, but his personal struggles with a Chinese criminal mastermind named Kenji, which reveals that it's Lee's long-lost...brother.
But their race will take them across the city, from the depths of the Paris underground to the breathtaking heights of the Eiffel Tower, as they fight to outrun the world's most deadly criminals and save the day. Of the three, this is the [[Sequelitis|least well-received]].
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* [[Crowd Hockey]]: The detonator in ''Rush Hour 2''.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Carter is generally loud, rude, and almost gleefully engages in [[Uncle Tomfoolery]] but proves to be a competent investigator and ''insanely'' fast on the draw in the first movie and defeats two accomplished martial artists who gave Lee trouble in 2 and 3.
* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Hu Li in ''Rush Hour 2''
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: The plastic explosive known as C-4 is highly stable and resistant to things like fire and gunshots, and it's also known for making a pretty powerful, forceful (not fiery) explosion when detonated. Carter shoots a trunk full of C-4 in the first film and triggers a small, standard Hollywood pyrotechnic show, indicating that the people behind the movie knew ''none'' of the aforementioned facts.
** Or just followed the [[Rule of Cool]].
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{{quote|'''Carter''': "My daddy ''was'' a legend! My daddy was killed during a routine traffic stop in broad daylight by some punk who didn't want no ticket!"}}
* [[Eagle Land]]: Not so much in the first two movies, but in ''Rush Hour 3'' Carter gets pretty obnoxiously Flavor 2; accusing all Iraqis of being terrorists and forcing a Frenchman to sing the US anthem ''at gunpoint''.
* [[Eagleland Osmosis]]: The French taxi driver in the third film thinks all Americans are violent action movie characters.
* [[Eiffel Tower Effect]]: The setting for the climatic battle at the end of the third film.
* [[Evil Brit]]: {{spoiler|Thomas Griffin, aka Juntao}} in the first movie.
* [[Flanderization]]: James Carter went from being a loudmouthed and self centered but legitimately competent detective in the first movie to being a [[Ted Baxter]] that's unable to take anything seriously in the second. The third film kind of mixes the two. And that's not even getting into the [[Uncle Tomfoolery]].
** He still is actually a competent cop. In the second movie he correctly guesses that the owner of the casino was in league with Ricky Tan ("follow the rich white man") and even manages to last in a fight against Hu-Li. In movie 3 he also is able to find the location of a club (if not by accident) that a mook only gives a vague address of, defeats several Triad bosses (on his own) and rescues Soo-Yung (again). It should also be noted that his antics actually get him ''demoted'' to traffic duty by number 3.
** In the first film, the very first thing we see him doing is mess up the arrest of an arms dealer, blowing up half a city block and getting two officers shot in the process. If anything he gets ''more'' competent as the films go on, not less, as he learns to work with a partner and exercise some degree of self-control.
* [[Follow That Car!]]: Seen in "Rush Hour 2", when Carter orders a taxi driver to follow a car. The driver doesn't move and keeps speaking Chinese to him. After a few back-and-forth exchanges, Carter slips him some money and the driver says, in English, "Now you're speaking my language." and steps on the gas.
** The [[Bilingual Bonus]] here is that the Chinese the driver is speaking translates to "Money first."
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* [[Improvised Zipline]]: Used to escape an explosion in the second movie.
* [[Ironic Echo]]: When Carter told Sang and his goons in the Foo Chow restaurant to "put their guns down and fight like a man." Which Sang would later tell Carter the same line in the expo facing each other.
** Also, when the same aforementioned guy is about to kill Carter in said restaurant, he throws a handkerchief to him and says: "Wipe yourself off, you're bleeding." Later, after killing the man in a shootout at the expo, Carter tosses a handkerchief on him and says: "Wipe yourself off, you dead."
* [[Jerkass]]: The FBI agents in the first movie.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Carter.
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'''Lee:''' You!
'''Carter:''' Detective Yu? }}
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{{quote|'''Carter:''' Do you! Understand! The words! That are coming out of my mouth?!}}
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Carter and Lee.
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