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Bad Boys II

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Bad Boys II

Like most action sequels, Bad Boys II is bigger and louder than the first film. However, it’s not necessarily any better. On one hand, the sequel spends a bit more time on the script than the original actually creating reasons for the constant bickering between Will Smith and Martin Lawrence and the crazy antics and action. On the other hand, things inevitably get out of control in the bloated script with a final act that more resembles Commando that any sort of believable police story.

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Bad Boys

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  • Title: Bad Boys
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Bad Boys

1995 answered the question of whether or not two black television stars could launch a successful franchise built largely on action sequences and recycled themes and plots from the genre. The film was a commercial success earning back more than three times its budget domestically and quite a bit more overseas and spawned three sequels over the next three decades. Whether or not these two can eventually make a good movie together is still a question that nearly 30 years later has yet to be answered. 

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Rush Hour 3

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Rush Hour 3

To date the last of the Rush Hour films, Rush Hour 3 is the weakest (by far). Every aspect of the film feels tired, pulling lesser versions of villains from both the first two films, and throwing Lee (Jackie Chan) and Carter (Chris Tucker) together ending up in Paris. We get the the abduction of Soo Yung (Jingchu Zhang) like in the first film, the evil philanthropist (Max Von Sydow) in plain sight like the first film, a villain (Hiroyuki Sanada) tied to Lee’s past like in the second film, and bigger stunts, goofy sequences (including Carter’s groanworthy fight sequence in a dojo and the molestation by French cops) and exotic locales in an attempt to hide the script’s many, many problems.

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Rush Hour 2

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  • Title: Rush Hour 2
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Rush Hour

Released three-years after the first film, Rush Hour 2 gives us Lee (Jackie Chan) and the vacationing Carter (Chris Tucker) in Hong Kong to open the film before the pair return to Los Angeles and ultimately end up in Las Vegas tackling a case connected to the Chinese Triad and the former partner (John Lone) of Lee’s father who framed him for his own crimes and murdered him.

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City Hunter

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  • Title: City Hunter (2024)
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City Hunter

Certainly less wacky than the 1993 adaptation of the manga of the same name, but still very much over-the-top, the new City Hunter still plays up the womanizing of private investigator Ryo Saeba (Ryohei Suzuki) and his unlikely partnership with the younger sister (Misato Morita) of his dead partner (Masanobu Andô) who is determined to help him discover the reason behind her brother’s murder and the number of odd occurrences around the city which is traced back to a drug manufactured and tested in secret on the homeless including the cat girl and cosplayer (Asuka Hanamura) Ryo was hired to find.

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