In the heart of Paris lies a deadly secret. Half a world away in Los Angeles, Ambassador Han is about to disclose it. In his possession is explosive new evidence about the inner workings of the Triads--the most powerful and notorious crime syndicate in the world. The Ambassador has discovered the identity of Shy Shen, the very crux of the wide-ranging crime ring, and he's about to reveal it to the World Criminal Court--until he is silenced by an assassin's bullet. The Triads will go to any lengths to make sure their secrets stay buried, and there's only one hope for stopping them. LAPD Detective Carter and Chinese Inspector Lee are back--back where they don't belong. The unlikely duo is headed to the City of Lights to stop a global criminal conspiracy and save the life of an old friend, Ambassador Han's now-grown daughter, Soo Yung. They don't know the city, the language or even exactly what they're looking for, 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.

Rush Hour 3 is the kind of sequel that could be ok and that you almost believe they might be able to make it work but a part of you has it doubts. The trailers look somewhat funny, they seem to be using all the same chemistry that made the first two movie guilty pleasures, heck it just might work. But that nagging doubt won’t go away, Chris Tucker only seems to Rush Hour movies and without them he would have been unemployed for over a decade. Jackie Chan is getting older and his martial arts are losing a step and you are having a hard time remembering the last good movie he made. Then you sit down for the third installment, hey you liked the first two why not and bam you get hit right between the eyes with a box office turd. The movie is boring, it hammers the same stupid stereotypes the first movies two made abundantly clear. Shhh I am going to tell you a secret, promise not to tell anyone, Jackie Chan is Chinese and Chris Tucker is black, shhhh. We get it haha they are buddy cops and ones Chinese and the other is a loud-mouthed black man haha. All the things that worked for the first two movies, don’t work for the third movie. The idea isn’t fresh, it isn’t unique, it isn’t funny and it isn’t entertaining.

Maybe there is a reason that Chris Tucker hasn’t done a movie in six years or that he has only done one franchise in nine years. That reason becomes quite evident as Rush Hour 3 beats to death every single black and Asian stereotype you can think of. The reason is he got lucky with Rush Hour, he gained fame from it and he must know that he has absolutely nothing else to offer. So since the producers were stupid enough to pay him 25 million dollars to make a third installment of a series that was running out of steam after only two movies why bother working in between the films. You are the idiot, loud mouthed, not particularly funny black man stereotype that is riding that stereotype to the bank. Not a bad line of work if you can get it. Maybe Chris Tucker should return some of that money he made for the movie to the poor people who paid for tickets to see his box office ride of boredom and drudgery.

The rest of the cast isn’t that much better as they seem to drag up all the stereotypes, from the Frenchmen who hates Americans, to the over zealous airport cop who likes to do body cavity searches. When were body cavity searches even that funny to begin with? You have the hot French girl, you got the old Chinese lady assassin, Jackie Chan’s character magically sprouts a brother and Chris Tucker who never shuts up in the movie. Action sequences that seem to contain very little action, a convoluted story line that is just silly, and jokes that just aren’t that funny. Shame on them for dragging these movies out of the vault only to insult them, and what a way to end the summer of three with the weakest of the third sequels.

Grade: D