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*Aside from Chan and Tucker no other characters or actors from the first film appear. However, on the DVD release of the film, a deleted scene featured [[Philip 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 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. |
*Aside from Chan and Tucker no other characters or actors from the first film appear. However, on the DVD release of the film, a deleted scene featured [[Philip 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 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. |
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*In the bar in Hong Kong, Carter is singing [[Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough]] by [[Michael Jackson]]. |
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*In the car, after Lee supposedly thinks that Carter's dead, he was listening to [[I'll Be Missing You]] by [[Diddy]]. |
*In the car, after Lee supposedly thinks that Carter's dead, he was listening to [[I'll Be Missing You]] by [[Diddy]]. |
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*During the falling money scene, some of the prop cash blew out of a window. Bystanders thought the cash was real and kept it, some actually spending it. The fake cash was so realistic that the studio was prohibited from making it ever again{{fact}}. |
*During the falling money scene, some of the prop cash blew out of a window. Bystanders thought the cash was real and kept it, some actually spending it. The fake cash was so realistic that the studio was prohibited from making it ever again{{fact}}. |
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| Directed by | Brett Ratner |
| Written by | Jeff Nathanson (Screenplay) Ross LaManna (Characters) |
| Produced by | Robert Birnbaum Jonathan Glickman Athur M. Sarkissian Jay Stern |
| Starring | Jackie Chan Chris Tucker John Lone Zhang Ziyi Roselyn Sanchez |
| Cinematography | Matthew F. Leonetti |
| Edited by | Mark Helfrich Robert K. Lambert |
| Music by | Lalo Schifrin Nile Rodgers Ira Hearshen |
| Distributed by |  New Line Cinema |
Release dates |  August 3, 2001 |
Running time | 90 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $90,000,000 |
| Box office | $347,325,802 |
Rush Hour 2 is a 2001 martial arts/buddy cop film, starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. It is the sequel to the movie Rush Hour (1998). Rush Hour 2 grossed US$347,325,802 at the world-wide box-office, becoming the 4th top grossing film of 2001.
Taglines:
- Get Ready For A Second Rush!
- The Mouth Of The West And The Hands Of The East Are Back!
Plot
The story of Rush Hour 2 continues from where the original left off, with Chief Inspector Lee (Chan) and Detective James Carter (Tucker) traveling to Hong Kong on a vacation. Carter is interested in having a good time; however, soon after they arrive, a bomb explodes in the American Embassy. Inspector Lee is assigned to the case, which becomes personal when it is discovered that the man behind it is Ricky Tan, his father's former partner. Tan, who played an instrumental role in his father's death, is now the leader of the Triads, the most 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. Lee learns that Ricky Tan will be attending a dinner party on his boat. When confronted, Tan claims that someone is trying to frame him. Tan's underling, Hu Li (Zhang), appears and shoots Tan, and he falls off the boat. In the chaos, Hu Li escapes, and Carter is ordered to be flown back to Los Angeles and Lee is ordered to stay away from the case until its resolvement. However, Lee and Carter return to Los Angeles together, seemingly motivated by their desire to bring justice for their respective father's deaths in the line of duty.
On the plane, Carter tells Lee that every case has a rich white man behind it, and that the man is 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 inside the Reign Towers, finding a sexy Secret Service agent named Isabella Molina (Roselyn Sanchez), who Carter met and tried to woo on Ricky Tan's yacht. Molina told the two men that Tan is money laundering $US 100 million dollars in "Superbills" (high grade counterfeit $US 100 bills) and asks them to find the trail.
Lee and Carter pay a visit to Carter's old friend Kenny (Don Cheadle), who tells them that a customer recently came in to his establishment with a suspicious amount of hundred-dollar bills. Carter checks them out and confirms that they are Tan's counterfeits. They trace the money back to the Triads, who are waiting for them and knock the two cops unconscious. Then they depart for Las Vegas. Lee and Carter wake up inside one of the Triads' trucks and escape. After finding out where they are, they realize that Tan is laundering that $100 million at the Red Dragon Casino.
At the Red Dragon, Lee and Carter split up. Carter makes a big commotion and distracts the security forces while Lee, at Molina's request, attempts to infiltrate the back area to find Tan's engraving plates (which were used to make the counterfeit money). However, Hu Li captures Lee, 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 is still alive. After saying a few words, he departs, leaving Hu Li to do whatever she wants.
Molina then takes out a gun, reveals herself as a Secret Service agent and attempts to arrest Hu Li. In the ensuring fight, Hu Li kicks Lee out of a window and he falls out onto the casino floor. Molina and Hu Li then fight, and Molina sweeps the trigger (that triggers 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 and detonates it. Carter then fights Hu Li while Lee heads to the penthouse to prevent Tan from getting the plates.
In the penthouse, Reign opens the safe and takes the plates. After Reign announces he is cutting the deal short, Tan stabs Reign to death. Lee confronts Tan, taking Reign's gun. Carter appears, having triumphantly knocked Hu Li out. After a tense standoff, Tan knocks the gun in Carter's direction as Lee fires the gun, which nearly kills Carter. In the ensuring chaos, Lee accidentally kicks Tan out the window, who falls to his death outside. Hu Li then enters, holding a bomb. Lee and Carter leap out of the window just as the bomb goes off, sliding on decoration wires with their jackets. The wires snap, and they swing into a sign for the casino. Their momentum swings them into the path of oncoming traffic. Through Lee's nimble skill and Carter's dumb luck, they narrowly escape being hit by two successive trucks.
The film ends at the airport. Sterling thanks Lee for his work in 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. All three are going their separate ways; Carter to Los Angeles, Molina to New York, and Lee to Hong Kong. After Isabella heads for her flight, Lee and Carter say one last goodbye. Lee then gives Carter, who at first graciously declines, his father's police badge, stating that he can finally "let it go." In return, Carter gives Lee $10,000 that he won from gambling at Caesars 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 New York City and watch a New York Knicks basketball game, The two of them decide to take another vacation in the Big Apple, dancing their way into the end of the movie to Michael Jackson's "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough".
Trivia
 | This article contains a list of miscellaneous information. (June 2007) |
- Aside from Chan and Tucker no other characters or actors from the first film appear. However, on the DVD release of the film, a deleted scene featured Philip 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 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 car, after Lee supposedly thinks that Carter's dead, he was listening to I'll Be Missing You by Diddy.
- During the falling money scene, some of the prop cash blew out of a window. Bystanders thought the cash was real and kept it, some actually spending it. The fake cash was so realistic that the studio was prohibited from making it ever again[citation needed].
- The Red Dragon Casino in Las Vegas owned by Ricky Tan (John Lone) and Steven Reign (Alan King) is actually 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 name of a real casino in Mountlake Terrace, Washington, USA. [1]
- Prop gaming chips were produced for the film, ranging in denominations from $1 to $1,000,000. These are much sought after by both film fans and gaming collectors. [2]
- Zhang Ziyi only speaks two words of English in the film, being her famous line "Some apple?", as she didn't know the language at the time of filming. Jackie Chan served as her translator on the set.
- Zhang Ziyi's character name, "Hu Li", means "fox."
- Both Rush Hour films begin in Hong Kong and end in a United States airport.
- In a chase scene, as Chris Tucker is running up the stairs, an old Chinese woman gets blocked by him, and she shouts "Step aside, Kobe!" with reference to Kobe Bryant. Tucker said on the Jay Leno show that during filming, many locals mistook him for Bryant.
- In one of the outtakes Chris Tucker mentioned that the antagonist (Ricky Tan) will not be around for Rush Hour 3. Rush Hour 3 was released six years later on August 10, 2007.
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 and the highest-grossing martial arts film of all time.[3]
The film's total worldwide box office take was $347,325,802 USD.[4]
Cast
- Chief Inspector Lee: Jackie Chan
- Detective James Carter: Chris Tucker
- Ricky Tan: John Lone
- Hu Li: Zhang Ziyi
- Isabella Molina: Roselyn Sanchez
- Steven Reign: Alan King
- Agent Sterling: Harris Yulin
- Captain Chin: Kenneth Tsang
- Kenny: Don Cheadle
References
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