Wrong signage Personally, I don’t like it when a series is based on a popular movie. Of course, successful examples were quite themselves: to take the same "Carrier", which is better and more interesting than any of its full-length counterparts except for the first. But still somehow begin to be prejudiced towards both actors and their characters. Willy-nilly, and compare everything that happens to the original. In addition, you begin to expect from the TV release the scale and pomposity of the Hollywood blockbuster.
In the case of Rush Hour, it was basically the same, although I do not consider the film with Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker to be such a cult. Yes, it is a wonderful, just great movie that you can watch and watch, but it does not cause me super admiration and unprecedented enthusiasm, even for all my love for Jackie and his work - he has films much more interesting.
The idea of police partners of different nations was once due to time (as a variant of my favorite quadrology “Lethal Weapon”, which, by the way, is also soon to be tortured by the series), has now become part of the mandatory program of any production. I'm not against exploiting it. But I still don’t understand why the creators of Rush Hour pushed themselves into this franchise without using anything from the original except the color of their skin and the names of the main characters. In itself, this fact pleases me inexpressibly, because some try to retell the source through a lot of episodes, but the result in the form of a closed series depresses me. We made a loud sign, shot a great show, and the result came out achy. In my opinion, the pitch has increased.
And in the rest of everything I recommend to watch: fights, tricks, chases, explosions, shooting and everything like that. Moreover, the staging and directing are very high-quality, visual effects score on all fronts. To be fair, however, I must admit that after a break between the two parts of the season (in which, apparently, the fate of the series was decided), all this chic disappeared completely, everything became a little more boring and banal.
In each series there is humor, but it turned out completely different than was Jackie Chan – master and guru of the combination of comedy and action. In the serial version there was too much grotesque and some youthful carelessness, which I personally did not like very much. And interesting places plots were interrupted by some overly highlighted improbability of the characters. For example, the captain of the precinct or Carter's friends are depicted extremely caricatured, and if a moron-half-criminal from the district can really be such, then you expect something different from the chief of police, especially here this is a woman (another stereotype, hello, I'm sorry I don't remember who was gay there in the end). In short, maybe the actress missed, maybe the character’s script was underworked.
In the dry balance, I am still satisfied and would very much like a sequel that will not be. The first half of the season is great.
7 out of 10