Rush Hour - Bill Lawrence/Brett Ratner Team-Up to Bring the Movie to TV

[Fallen Angel]

Saw it yesterday almost like a rehash of the first movie.

 

[James]

I really liked it!

Very fast paced. I hope they can keep up the fun action now that they've covered the first film. The twist with Lee's sister was neat too. The guy playing Gerald was really good, his reactions and tone were very funny.

Whether or not the show will have any success is up in the air, but I think if they can create some good original content and expand on the characters it should do okay. Having used up the material from the film they'll be forced to start creating something new, so we'll see how that goes.

The helicopter scene was fun too!

 

[THUNDERSTRIKE]

just the same old same old but with new faces... saw it, was bored, will pass... I don't see a long shelf-life for this...

 

[3dman27]

They have an Hour to rescue the kidnapped girl, so they really need to Rush.

ok thanks

 

[Teelie]

I really liked it!

Very fast paced. I hope they can keep up the fun action now that they've covered the first film. The twist with Lee's sister was neat too. The guy playing Gerald was really good, his reactions and tone were very funny.

Whether or not the show will have any success is up in the air, but I think if they can create some good original content and expand on the characters it should do okay. Having used up the material from the film they'll be forced to start creating something new, so we'll see how that goes.

The helicopter scene was fun too!

It really is a rehash of the movie with actors who are trying to recreate the characters but they just aren't... and the twist with the sister was so freaking obvious. As soon as I saw the motorcyclist was female... I knew who it was. And that's after I knew she wasn't on the airplane.

I'm still watching the episode right now but so far it has not impressed me. Part of this problem is they are halfway redoing the movie so you know most of the twists ahead of time.

 

[James]

Oh, sorry. When I said the "twist with Lee's sister" I meant having her as the kidnap victim rather than the little girl. The fact she was the woman on the motorbike was barely even hidden.

 

[Kelly]

Premiere opened with a Rating score of 1.1...stays in line with "Elementary" in that same time slot.

 

[Kelly]

Not looking good for this series....dropped to .9 this past Thursday....maybe now that American Idol is out of the way it will have a better shot. Hope CBS gives it a better shot than they did "Angel From Hell"...

 

[James]

As much as I liked the pilot, I got about ten minutes into the second episode before I gave it up. I guess without the magic of the first film to adapt from, the show just can't hold it's own.

 

[famicommander]

Not looking good for this series....dropped to .9 this past Thursday....maybe now that American Idol is out of the way it will have a better shot. Hope CBS gives it a better shot than they did "Angel From Hell"...

It's dead. Fractional by week 2 on CBS is an automatic death sentence. Especially for a Warner show.

 

[Kelly]

It's dead. Fractional by week 2 on CBS is an automatic death sentence. Especially for a Warner show.

Yeah, you are probably right...it may not make it to May.

 

[Fallen Angel]

Yeah episode 2 was a filler. I mean even though the first episode was a rehash of the first movie , they should've continued with the story arc they set up. Why go into filler territory in only the second episode?

 

[Warhammer]

I don't understand why they did the entire first film in the first episode. That could have been stretched out all the way to the finale with the first season being a short one. They were already some motherf***ers trying to iceskate uphill with a two men trying their best to replicate the Chan/Tucker chemistry.

 

[Fallen Angel]

So 4 episodes in and they just dropped the pilot arc they set up for 3 straight filler episodes? I'm not sure why I'm still watching this show.

 

[Kelly]

It's dead in shark infested waters...the only reason it is winning its time slot is because the other network's shows are just as bad.

 

[Quasar]

I'd decided to stop watching before I finished ep 3. Reinforcing that decision was the generic preview of the next week's ep, which included the line "L.A.'s wildest" accompanied by a shot of Carter holding his gun and yelling "stop or I'll shoot!" Man, that is crazy wild! No non-wild cop would ever yell like that!

 

[Hunter Rider]

So 4 episodes in and they just dropped the pilot arc they set up for 3 straight filler episodes? I'm not sure why I'm still watching this show.

Yeah, there's been no sign of his sister since the pilot. It's a really poor show with two flat leads, the Captain and the female detective that was on Dexter are the best two characters IMO.

 

[Teelie]

I haven't given up on it quite yet but it definitely occured to me this could have been renamed literally anything else and no one would ever have mistkaen it for a televised version of the Rush Hour franchise.

There was no reason for them to use Rush Hour as part of this series. Nothing besides the pilot episode and their names are even connected to it.

 

[TheVileOne]

This show IMHO symbolic of what's wrong with procedural shows. The actors are bad, and their chemistry is bad. You can't just call it Rush Hour and use a similar premise and expect to come up with the same magic.

The actor playing Lee is not believable at all. The action is beyond schlocky. At least with the Rush Hour films you sort of have that appeal of the Jackie Chan style action.

 

[Cosmic Blaster]

I loved the movies (huge Jackie Chan fan) but I can't see the reason behind this TV adaptation. Never know, might be a nice surprise

 

[Quasar]

It's not.

 

[Teelie]

I don't blame the actors too much. Given what material they have to work with there is only so far they can take it. I do like their Captain and some of the supporting characters but the leads don't feel quite right. No one can be Jackie Chan but Jackie Chan and though you can say there are some actors kind of sort of like Chris Tucker (Kevin Hart, who IMO is actually a better Tucker than Tucker springs to mind), this guy Justin Hires just isn't one of them. They are miscast. You can't just grab an asian actor and a black actor with passing resembalances and then go with that.

 

[Kaleb]

‘Rush Hour’ Canceled By CBS After One Season

 

[THUNDERSTRIKE]

good... it deserved it, it was doomed from Day One...

 

[Gold Samurai]

Thank goodness. It was a bad shell of the original movies. The two lead actors didn't have any chemistry.