I saw Rush Hour 2 prior to seeing Rush Hour . The effect was that I liked the sequel better. I know, sequels tend to be worse. My theory is that they are not. Its just that after seeing the first movie we all have our own ideas about what the characters are like and what we think they may go on and do. Rush Hour is an action flick The characters are fairly one dimensional. You miss no character development by watching them out of order.

The thing that makes the second one better than this one is that here we have to see them meet for the first time. First detective Lee, a Chinese policeman is introduced fighting bad guys in China. Then we have officer Carter. An LAPD officer capturing a bomb dealer. Then through some unimportant plot devices they finally meet after about a half hour in to the movie. Now anyone who has seen these movies know that the best thing about them is the two characters chemistry. So the second movie has more of them together, and thus is a better movie.

This one, like the second, moves along quickly with plenty of action. Also like the second, the best scenes are when the two leads are sharing screen time. These two buddies have more charm than those two cops from the Lethal Weapon series. In those movies Glover was simply the serious, straight man to Gibson's nutty character. In Rush Hour either character is the funny one. It just depends on which character is in the more familiar territory.

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