Rush Hour
Director: Brett Ratner
Genre: Comedy, Action, Thriller, Crime
Year: 1998
Country: United States of America
Language: Cantonese, English Language, Japanese Language
Starring: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Ken Leung, Chris Penn, Tzi Ma, Philip Baker Hall, Elizabeth Peña, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Rolston, Clifton Powell, Rex Linn, Matthew Barry, Zhang Jingchu, Youki Kudoh, Hiroyuki Sanada, Noémie Lenoir, Max von Sydow, Roselyn Sanchez, John Lone, Yvan Attal, Stephen Blackehart, Jason Davis, Stanley DeSantis, John Hawkes, Christine Ng, Lucy Lin, Tom Wilkinson, Robert Littman, Michael Chow, Kai Lennox, George Cheung, Roger Fan
Rush Hour is a 1998 American action comedy film and the first installment in the Rush Hour film series. Directed by Brett Ratner and starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, Rush Hour was a major success and became the 7th top grossing film of 1998, with a gross of over $140 million dollars at the U.S. box office. It was followed by two sequels, Rush Hour 2 (2001) and Rush Hour 3 (2007).
On the last day of British rule in Hong Kong late 1997, Detective Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan) of the Hong Kong police leads a raid at a shipping bar wharf, hoping to arrest the mysterious crime lord Juntao. He finds only Sang (Ken Leung), Juntao's right hand man, who manages to escape. However, Lee successfully recovers numerous Chinese cultural treasures stolen by Juntao, which he presents as a farewell victory to his departing superiors: Chinese Consul Solon Han (Tzi Ma) and British Commander Thomas Griffin (Tom Wilkinson).
Shortly after Han arrives in the United States to take up his new diplomatic post in Los Angeles, his daughter, Soo Yung, is kidnapped while on her way to her first day of school. The leader of the kidnappers is none other than Sang. Shortly after this incident, the FBI inform
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