Rush Hour 3
New Line Cinema | Release Date: August 10, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
20
Negative:
8
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
Washington PostDesson Thomson
At the risk of eternal damnation on the Internet, I admit to laughing at -- even feeling momentarily touched by -- Rush Hour 3. Read full review
67
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
Ratner, who has been accurately dubbed a "fauxteur," does an OK job keeping the action swirling, especially in the finale atop the Eiffel Tower. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Rush Hour 3 reminds us that Tucker is an utterly strange entertainment phenomenon: He exists only in the world of these movies. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
By no means is it a great movie, but it is great slapstick fun, one of summer's guilty pleasures. Read full review
60
Village VoiceChuck Wilson
Chan is still the Gene Kelly of martial arts. Read full review
60
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Crass, stupid and crudely made. It's also, in places, weirdly brilliant, a picture that plays to the largest possible audience with mechanical efficiency but also, here and there, betrays glimmers of self-deprecating cleverness, as if it were striving, perhaps even unconsciously, to transcend its own dumbness. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
It's a jerry-built kick-ass insult machine assembled entirely out of secondhand parts. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
In its third time out of the gate, Rush Hour 3, reuniting Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan, hits the ground stalling. Read full review
50
VarietyRobert Koehler
The latest picture to feature one of the movies’ oddest crime-fighting tandems nevertheless stays true to the franchise formula of East-West fusion action, broad cultural comedy and international intrigue, this time largely in Paris. Read full review
50
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Though the movie's a shade shorter than the first two, it feels longer. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Once you realize it's only going to be so good, you settle back and enjoy that modest degree of goodness, which is at least not badness, and besides, if you're watching Rush Hour 3, you obviously didn't have anything better to do, anyway. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Strangest of all, Roman Polanski shows up to torture our heroes with a Paris phone book, then subject them to a full-cavity search. A gratuitous nod to "Chinatown"? Who knows? Who cares? Read full review
50
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
The best scenes belong to Tucker and director Brett Ratner keys in to his timing, whether it's a Chinese twist on "Who's on First" or a seduction scene in which Tucker blurts out every impulse. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJoanne Kaufman
Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker have been through a lot together. To be exact, "Rush Hour" "Rush Hour 2" and now Rush Hour 3. Are they tired? Perhaps not, but their antics and action sequences certainly are. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKevin Crust
There's precious little that is fresh or new about the movie. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Feels as desperate and static as being trapped in a traffic jam. Read full review
50
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
It's actually surprising that Chan is as engaging as he is. He's a canny performer in a canned-goods movie. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderAndrea Gronvall
Chan shows he still has the chops during a showdown at the Eiffel Tower, but you'd think the movie's reported budget of $140 million might have bought Tucker at least one side-splitting gag. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
This may be the best-looking film in the series; certainly, the Paris setting, with a climactic battle among the girders of the Eiffel Tower, keeps the visuals interesting. Better you buy a postcard. Read full review
50
Portland OregonianM. E. Russell
If you like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you'll like. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleRuthe Stein
It works primarily because of the chemistry between Chan and Tucker, which is at its combustible best this time out. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
It's the same package with new wrapping. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
For a series devoted to giving audiences exactly what they want, it'd be pretty damn appropriate. Read full review
50
TimeRichard Corliss
The first Rush Hour was a pretty good movie, the second one pretty lame. The threequel is somewhere in between: nothing special but with a high amiability quotient. The two stars know they click; it's no crime for them to extend and exploit that good vibe one more time. Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Dull, uninspired, and redundant. Read full review
38
PremiereAaron Hillis
Chan still sounds silly talkin' jive, the action sequences are peppy if not exactly memorable, and the gags have been sitting out long enough to make penicillin. Read full review
38
Miami HeraldPeter Debruge
If "Casino Royale" and "The Bourne Ultimatum" represent the new breed of 21st century action, then Rush Hour 3 is Stone Age stuff. The movie aims for irreverent, but delivers irrelevant instead. Let's hope the Rush Hour series stalls here. Read full review
38
New York PostKyle Smith
"Rush Hour" was acceptable. It was to "Rush Hour 2" what McDonald's is to White Castle. "Rush Hour 2" is to Rush Hour 3 what White Castle is to cat food. Read full review
30
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
The junky, clunky, grimly unfunny follow-up to the marginally better “Rush Hour 2” and the significantly finer “Rush Hour,” isn’t the worst movie of the summer. But it’s an enervating bummer nonetheless, largely because it shows so little respect for its two likable stars and its audience. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneScott Schueller
Rush Hour 3 is DOA. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
It just signals a series that's plainly out of gas. Read full review
10
Film ThreatPete Vonder Haar
The biggest loser in all of this is Chan, whose legacy over here won’t be his 20+ years as a martial arts pioneer, but rather his playing straight man to the likes of Tucker and Owen Wilson. Read full review
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