Rush Hour 3

For those who’ve been bereft since Rush Hour 2 (2001), Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker are back as the Hong Kong and L.A. cop buddies, this time on the trail of some Asian criminal entity through the streets of Paris and up and down the Eiffel Tower. The plot isn’t much; it’s all in the action and the banter. Chan is as amusingly active as ever (though he appears to be getting some CGI assistance these days); Tucker (still the poor man’s Chris Rock) has an amusing who’s-on-first routine with two Chinese men named “Yu” and “Mi.” For the rest, there’s Max von Sydow (playing a good guy, you think?) and a cameo by director Roman Polanski. Yvan Attal plays a French cabbie who rails against Americans and their pointless violence—the unspoken irony being that he’s probably seen too many movies like this one.