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movie review - Rush Hour

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 1998.09.28

Once in a while a crazy match-up in a buddy movie really works, and this is one of them. The consummate professional in Jackie Chan, and the unbelievable loud-mouth in Chris Tucker. Two cops from very different police forces work together through the usual series of scenes of escalating stakes and complexity and violence. It just works, being clever and quick and even-handed.

Recommended. Not serious fare, but a good time.

rand()m quote

Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things you believe in, out of the things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something. The ingredients are there. You are the only one who can put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life. Let it be a life that has dignity and meaning for you. If it does, then the particular balance of success or failure is of less account.

—John Gardner