Rush Hour 3

I saw Rush Hour 3 on sale in my local electronics store here at 10 euros. Not too bad a price, so I bought it. Watching my latest movie acquisition - I think it was ok for the price, however, it definitely falls short of Rush Hour 1 and 2. Same tricks, same stuff, same acts. Just only in a different location. Amazing coincidences that they - the cops - find out where the criminal's address is. I mean - talk about lucky to the point it's unrealistic. Yes, it's a movie and movies are meant to be unrealistic, but then there's unrealistic and then there's unrealistic. And this falls into the latter category.

Characters are so one-dimensional that it was so easy to pick out the baddie from the start. This happens when the movie just gets plain tired. To think they paid Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker a combined gross wage of 35 million US dollars to act in this. I'd have canned it a long time ago but that's Hollywood trying to con everyone out of their last dime in trying to breathe something into an almost-dead franchise.

I watched it once, and it was ok. Anymore and it'd be Snore hour 3.

I'd put this film at 2/5 if only for some occasional silly moments but other than that, there's nothing more.

Next movie coming up - Elizabeth the Golden Age.

Curse of the Golden Flower

Another of the DVDs I got off Amazon's spring/summer sale for under 5 quid. And to be honest, after watching the movie, it was more a waste of 5 pounds than a savings of 10 pounds.

This movie in 1 word - CRAP. In 2 words - TOTAL CRAP. In 3 words - UTTER TOTAL CRAP. For all the lavish costumes, sets, colours, etc, it's an epic FAIL. 35 million dollars. Most expensive chinese made movie. Most expensive crap. It's just plain horrible. The multi-coloured corridors hurts the eyes almost as bad as the 1-dimensioned characters, plot and almost nonexistent acting. Heck, one could have replaced them with stuffed paper dolls and it would have been ok. Plot lines are not well thought out, and it just was plain painful watching it till the end.

Maybe this little review comes a little later after the movie has been released, but hey, I don't care. No point paying 10 pounds to see a movie in London when I'm not sure of its quality. And looking at this excuse for a pile of cow excrement, I sure am happy I didn't do it.

Do yourself a favour and avoid this stinker at all costs. Frankly, if this was China's entry into the Academy Awards, I really hate to see what they didn't choose to submit.