Carter confirms that they are Reign's counterfeits and they trace the money back to a bank. He tells them that a usually broke customer recently came into his establishment with a suspicious amount of hundred-dollar bills. Lee and Carter pay a visit to Kenny (Don Cheadle), an ex-con known to Carter who runs a gambling den in the back of his Chinese restaurant. After a few misunderstandings, Molina tells the two men that she is undercover, looking into Reign's money laundering of $100 million in superdollars. Secret Service agent named Isabella Molina (Roselyn Sánchez), whom Carter met earlier in Hong Kong. They set up camp outside the Reign Towers, spotting a U.S. On the plane, Carter tells Lee that in every large criminal operation, there is a rich white man behind it and that man is Steven Reign (Alan King), a billionaire Los Angeles hotelier whom Carter saw acting suspiciously on Ricky's boat. However, at the airport, Carter gets Lee to return to LA with him. Carter is ordered back to Los Angeles for involving himself and Lee volunteers to take him to the airport. An angry Sterling holds Lee responsible for Ricky's death, and orders him off the case. Just as Ricky asks for protection, Hu Li shoots him and makes her escape in the chaos. Ricky scolds his underling, Hu Li (Zhang Ziyi), who then leaves as Lee and Carter confront her boss. He and a relieved Lee cross paths at Ricky's yacht where he is holding a dinner party. Carter is revealed to be alive, leaving the room before it exploded. Suddenly, Lee's office that Carter was in is bombed, causing Lee to believe he's dead and grieve for him. Secret Service, led by Agent Sterling (Harris Yulin), and the Hong Kong Police Force soon get into a fight over the jurisdiction of the case. This, however, causes Lee and Carter to get into a brawl between them and Ricky's bodyguards, with Carter becoming shocked with Lee as they were busy with their vacation. Ricky, who was suspected of having a role in elder Lee's death (although never proven), is now a leader of the Triads. Inspector Lee is assigned to the case, which becomes personal when it is discovered that it somehow involves Ricky Tan (John Lone), his late police officer father's former partner. Their leisure is temporarily put on hold as soon as a bomb explodes at the United States Consulate General, murdering two undercover U.S.

A sequel, Rush Hour 3, was released in August 2007.įour days after the events of Rush Hour, LAPD Detective James Carter (Chris Tucker) is on vacation in Hong Kong visiting his friend, Hong Kong Police Force Chief Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan), whom he met and befriended after working together to save the Chinese Consul Han's daughter, Soo Yung (Julia Shu), in Los Angeles. It became the year's 11th-highest-grossing film worldwide as well as the second-highest-grossing PG-13 film.Īfter the commercial success of the first film in the franchise, Tucker received a salary of US$20 million for his role in the film. The film was a commercial success it grossed $347.3 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing film in the franchise. Rush Hour 2 opened on Augto generally mixed reviews. Lee suspects that the crime is linked to the Triad crime lord Ricky Tan (Lone). customs agents after a bombing at the American embassy. Its plot follows Chief Inspector Lee (Chan) and Detective James Carter (Tucker), who go to Hong Kong on vacation only to be thwarted by a murder case involving two U.S. The film is written by Jeff Nathanson based on the characters created by Ross LaManna, and stars Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, John Lone, Roselyn Sánchez and Zhang Ziyi. It is the sequel to the original Rush Hour and the second installment in Rush Hour series.

Gallery Rush Hour 2 is a 2001 action comedy film directed by Brett Ratner.

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