Rush Hour (1998)
Consul Han’s (Tzi Ma, Chain Reaction) 11-year-old daughter is kidnapped and held for a $50 million ransom. The FBI are on the case, but he flies in an old friend and police inspector named Lee...
1990s / Action / Comedy / Martial Arts
by Vincent Leo · Published August 14, 2007 · Last modified February 25, 2019
Consul Han’s (Tzi Ma, Chain Reaction) 11-year-old daughter is kidnapped and held for a $50 million ransom. The FBI are on the case, but he flies in an old friend and police inspector named Lee...
2000s / Action / Fantasy / Science Fiction / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published May 29, 2006 · Last modified June 12, 2019
This is the third installment of the X-Men series, continuing the storylines developed since the first X-Men and the show-stopping finale which culminated in the death of Jean Grey (Janssen) in X2. Jean Grey does make a comeback here,...
by Vincent Leo · Published November 14, 2004 · Last modified January 7, 2020
After the Sunset mixes the quirky plot of To Catch a Thief, the plucky tongue-in-cheek humor of Ocean’s Eleven, and the character-driven interactions of damn near every Elmore Leonard novel that was ever written (The Big Bounce‘s...
There are so many reasons people may not care to see Red Dragon, the latest film in the Hannibal Lecter trilogy adapted from Thomas Harris’ bestselling series, that it actually amazes me that someone would...
2000s / Action / Comedy / Martial Arts / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published August 7, 2001 · Last modified April 29, 2019
I’ve heard that sometimes in comedy it’s not what you say but the way you say it that will inspire laughs. After watching Rush Hour 2, you’d think the makers took this philosophy as the...
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