Rush Hour (2016)
CBS | Release Date: March 31, 2016
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
46
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
11
Negative:
3

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydMar 31, 2016
Season 1 Review: Rush Hour, the Jackie Chan-Chris Tucker big-screen martial-arts action-comedy franchise, has now given birth to a noisy and likable TV series. Read full review
70
The Salt Lake TribuneScott D. PierceMar 31, 2016
Season 1 Review: It's entertaining in a none-too-challenging kind of way. Read full review
67
NewsdayDiane WertsMar 30, 2016
Season 1 Review: The plotting had better up its game, too, with nearly every pilot “twist” being ridiculously predictable. Read full review
63
New York PostRobert RorkeMar 31, 2016
Season 1 Review: With only one episode available for review, it’s impossible to determine if Rush Hour is hampered by its need to set up contrasts between the lawmen and solve a crime. Maybe things get better. Read full review
60
Los Angeles Daily NewsRob LowmanMar 29, 2016
Season 1 Review: The best thing about the series is its likeable cast. ... With only one episode available, it’s hard to tell if Rush Hour will offer up more than its light and breezy attitude. No one is looking to weigh it down, but if turns into a mystery-of-the-week procedural, the jokes and action will get old fast. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerEllen GrayMar 30, 2016
Season 1 Review: These characters need more development than this first rushed hour gives them. Read full review
50
USA TodayRobert BiancoMar 30, 2016
Season 1 Review: A dispiriting, derivative buddy-cop comedy. Read full review
42
Uncle BarkyEd BarkMar 31, 2016
Season 1 Review: This is a series that CBS should have kept doing without. But 18 years after Rush Hour hit it very big, here’s a TV version that for the most part falls flatter than a thug on the receiving end of a Yan Naing Lee kick. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubLaToya FergusonMar 31, 2016
Season 1 Review: The Rush Hour movie franchise is unfortunately downgraded for TV, right down to the casting of relative 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. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyKevin P. SullivanMar 28, 2016
Season 1 Review: We get more bland network-procedural action. [1/8 Apr 2016, p.99]
42
The Lincoln Journal StarJeff KorbelikMar 28, 2016
Season 1 Review: The pilot is mildly amusing. Neither Foo, nor Hires, is as engaging as Tucker and Chan, and the chemistry between them is lacking. Read full review
40
SalonSonia SaraiyaMar 31, 2016
Season 1 Review: The pilot is hardly memorable at all, a pale facsimile of a thing that might have been funny, once. Read full review
40
Las Vegas WeeklyJosh BellMar 31, 2016
Season 1 Review: Rush Hour isn’t particularly funny, and there’s nothing exciting about its familiar crime-drama structure. Without unique star power to carry it, it’s just another dull procedural on a network already filled with them. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterDaniel FienbergMar 30, 2016
Season 1 Review: CBS' Rush Hour is diluted and fairly charmless, but it's certainly no worse than what the movies already did to the brand. Read full review
40
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenMar 29, 2016
Season 1 Review: A paint-by-numbers action-comedy. Read full review
30
Boston GlobeIsaac Feldberg Mar 30, 2016
Season 1 Review: For every slick sequence and outrageous situation the pilot sets up, Rush Hour is about as amusing as being stuck in highway gridlock. Foo and Hires aren’t operating on the same frequency, and there’s little chemistry between them. More worryingly, the pair have to contend with scripts that even audiences in the late ’90s would have deemed stale. Read full review
30
VarietyBrian LowryMar 29, 2016
Season 1 Review: The formula [dropping Asian heroes into Western settings], however, also perhaps unavoidably traffics in hoary stereotypes, even if Hires, a stand-up comic, dials down the clowning from Tucker’s much-lampooned performance. Read full review
20
ColliderChris CabinMar 30, 2016
Season 1 Review: The jokes that are deployed in Rush Hour, though certainly not the worst I’ve heard on TV recently, are so deeply uninspired, so uncaring in relation to the story and the characters, that the focus on such things leaves a sour aftertaste. Read full review
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