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When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the sidelines, Lee and Carter form an unlikely partnership and investigate the case themselves.
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When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the sidelines, Lee and Carter form an unlikely partnership and investigate the case themselves.
1999 | Lalo
1999
Best OnScreen Duo | 1999 | Chris
Favorite Duo ActionAdventure | 1999 | Chris
Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film | 1999 | Elizabeth
Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television | 1999 | Lalo
Best Fight | 1999 | Jackie
Best Comedic Performance | 1999 | Chris
Best Movie Song | 1999 | Jay-Z
Favorite Movie Actor | 1999 | Chris
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Motion Picture | 1999 | Chris
Favorite Supporting Actress ActionAdventure | 1999 | Elizabeth
Best Original Score for an Action Film | 1998 | Lalo
Budget 33,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 244,721,064 USD
According to director Brett Ratner, this movie was the first movie to be released in the U.S. featuring Jackie Chan in an English-speaking role without any kind of dubbing. According to Ratner, before this movie, Chan always had his voice dubbed over in his English-speaking roles because of his uncertainty in speaking the language. For this movie, however, Ratner convinced him to forgo the dubbing, as it would lend to the authenticity of his character.
Brett Ratner was a big fan of Jackie Chan's Hong Kong movies. He felt that American audiences would not be familiar with the jokes in Jackie's other movies, and deliberately re-used some of his gags. For example, the scene where Inspector Lee accidentally grabs Johnson's (Elizabeth Peña's) breasts is a reference to Jackie Chan's film Mr. Nice Guy (1997).
The Foo Chow is a real restaurant in Chinatown. As of January 2021, there is still a sign that states, "...Rush Hour was shot here".
Jackie Chan was almost killed filming the scene where he is almost crushed by metal boxes. They slammed together about a quarter of a second after his head was clear.
Chris Tucker improvised much of his dialogue, as he normally does in his movies. According to director Brett Ratner, during the scene at Grauman's where Detective Carter bribes Stucky for information, there was so much improvisation between Tucker and John Hawkes that they almost did not think they could edit it together as a coherent conversation. There are still continuity errors in the dialogue for this reason.
"Carter: This is the LAPD. We're the most hated cops in all the free world. My own mama's ashamed of me. She tells everybody I'm a drug dealer."
"Captain Diel: Two officers were shot, one man lost a pinkie. Carter: But didn't nobody die! Captain Diel: You destroyed half a city block! Carter: That block was already messed up. Captain Diel: And you lost a lot of evidence! Carter: We still got a little bit left."
