Rush Hour 2
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| Directed by | Brett Ratner |
| Produced by | Arthur Sarkissian |
| Written by | Jeff Nathanson |
| Based on | Characters created by Ross LaManna |
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| Music by | Lalo Schifrin |
| Cinematography | Matthew F. Leonetti |
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Mark Helfrich Robert K. Lambert |
| Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
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90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $90 million |
| Box office | $347.3 million |
Rush Hour 2 is a 2001 American martial arts buddy cop action comedy film. It is the sequel to the 1998 film Rush Hour and the second installment in the Rush Hour film series. The film stars Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker who respectively reprise their roles as Inspector Lee and Detective Carter. The film finds Lee and Carter embroiled in a counterfeit scam involving the Triads.
Rush Hour 2 was released August 3, 2001 to mixed reviews from critics, but it grossed $347.3 million at the worldwide box office, becoming the eleventh highest-grossing film of 2001 worldwide. It is the highest-grossing martial arts film of all time, and was followed up with another sequel, Rush Hour 3, in 2007.
Four days after the events of Rush Hour, LAPD detective James Carter is on vacation with his friend, HKPF Chief Inspector Lee, as he was asked to vacation along with Lee after helping save the Chinese Consul's daughter, Soo Yung, in Los Angeles. Their leisure is temporarily put on hold as soon as a bomb explodes at the United States Consulate General, murdering two undercover U.S. Customs agents inside of it. Chief Inspector Lee is assigned to the case, which becomes personal when it is discovered that it somehow involves Ricky Tan, his late police officer father's former partner. Tan, who was suspected of having a role in elder Lee's death (although never proved), is now a leader of the Triads. This, however, causes Lee and Carter to get into a brawl between them and Tan's bodyguards, with Carter becoming shocked with Lee as they were busy with their vacation.
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