Tucker and Chan team up again, taking on the bad guys with their fists and fast thinking.

While "Rush Hour" cruised in the diamond lanes to a less than satisfiying climax; this second movie, like rush hour traffic, is stop and go up until a particularly quenching, high-speed, twenty-minute conclusion.

Chris Tucker plays Chan's partner, not Chris Rock! Now that we've cleared that up, let me just say Tucker is smokin'! You'll love watching this man take a beating from Crouching Tiger's Zhang Ziyi. Multiple kicks to the face and Chris still can't believe this tiny woman's leg are responsible. He has that perplexed/irked look down pat and doesn't stop there. Tucker is funny all over this film, "I have a dream that one day, white people and black people and even Chinese people can gamble together whithout getting different chips!"

I love Jackie, but aside from the last twenty-minutes and a very nice bamboo-scaffolding scuffle, he's punching the time card.

"Rush Hour" shows no restraint on racial humor, taking turns at taking shots at blacks, whites and asians - all in good fun.

From Hong Kong to the United States, the above-average cinematograpy films a twisty-turny below-average plot, for which the action and laughs should make up (and almost do).

Come late and enjoy the smashing, fantastical, well-orchestrated conclusion.