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Heheheh, I wonder how Rush Hour 3 will fare .... but I'm not going to find out.
I was a big fan of Jackie Chan. Chris Tucker? Not so much.
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Here's an example of problems I had with the Bourne sequels. Car chases. Big part of the franchise, right? Always a good car chase in the Bourne films.
But the ones in the sequels with just Jason Bourne in the car are not nearly as good as the one in the original with his new girlfriend along for the joyride.
See, there's no danger for Jason Bourne in a car chase (heck he survives a wreck in Bourne-Three without a scratch that would have killed an entire schoolbus full of kids). But with an unsuspecting girl along, the danger quotient is there. We feel it. She's our surrogate. She's the innocent civilian along for the ride with the uber-trained spy.
The chases with just Bourne alone in the vehicle, while technically superb, were emotionally inferior.
Likewise, the most riveting action in Bourne-Three is when the girl, Nicki, is being hunted by a CIA assassin and Bourne must rescue her. Girl in danger = excitement. Bourne in danger = we don't believe it for a second.
And yeah, the ending of Bourne-Three with him in the water was a nice bookend to the series. But his repeat of the line from the original, "Look what they make us give" came off lame, imo. (It was a ham-handed salute ... plus, um, Matt Damon is no Clive Owens. Sorry, Matt. No.)
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