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Rush Hour is a series that is a TV adaptation of the big-screen hit about a by-the-book Hong Kong police detective teaming with a maverick black cop in Los Angeles, as they are forced into forming an unlikely partnership.
9 October 1983, Los Angeles, California, USA
28 April 1982, New York City, New York, USA
31 May 1974, Chicago, Illinois, USA
11 November 1987, Springfield, Missouri, USA
15 December 1979, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California, USA
24 January 1984, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
23 November 1964, Virginia, USA
22 February 1929, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
17 April 1967, Trujillo, Peru
April 01, 2016
CBS's Rush Hour doesn't outshine the original movie, or even the sequel, but I guess it's somewhat better than the third one. That doesn't seem like high praise, I know, and that's because it isn't.
April 05, 2016
Bloody reboot swimming in shootouts, outdated stereotypes.
April 01, 2016
It's a formula that worked for three movies that grossed nearly $1 billion, so why change it for television? Well, that would make sense if the TV version kept Chan and Tucker.
March 30, 2016
Landing with a dull thud in the middle of a small-screen landscape that's increasingly driven by movements toward narrative ingenuity and diversity of perspective, Rush Hour is ultimately just another cop show, and not a very fun one at that.
April 01, 2016
There are indications that The Powers That Be (which include Cougar Town vets Bill Lawrence and Blake McCormick) are well aware of what does and does not work about the film 18 years later.
March 31, 2016
The Rush Hour movie franchise is unfortunately downgraded for TV, right down to the casting of... unknowns Hires and Foo as Carter and Lee. They may be aware they're in a buddy cop show, but lack any of the chemistry that such a pairing should entail.
March 31, 2016
The comedy is rote, the dialogue is wooden, and the performances by Justin Hires and Jon Foo, in the Tucker and Chan roles respectively, are nil.
March 30, 2016
Can't rush to judgment here. Future episodes, absent the pilot's pyrotechnics, should play significantly different.
April 01, 2016
Saddled with having to recreate a two hour movie in 45 minutes, Foo and Hires feel like they are doing impressions of their predecessors, and it cuts into their natural charm and rhythm.
