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Rush Hour

7.1/ 10

40 min

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gumstarr • 26 June 2016, 13:09

If you thought 12 Monkeys, From Dusk Till Dawn, and Minority Report were rather mediocre renditions of the cinematic original, then you haven't seen CBS's Rush Hour. Can this devastating misery please stop some day ?! If, as a silliness station, you no longer know how to fill your programming, just buy the rights to the bowling world championships. Must be a lot cheaper and I can hardly imagine that fewer people will look at it. The consumption. If Chris Tucker, the funny man in Rush Hour the movie, isn't overshadowed by heavyweights like Katt Williams, Dave Chappelle and Eddie in his good days, CBS's Agent Carter Justin Hires is in the top ten. pages of The List Of American Funny Guys. In fact, it's probably dangling at the very bottom somewhere. Just below Martin Lawrence and all eight of the extremely funny Wayans brothers. And then that Jackie Chan wannabe… It's as if they asked Tommy Beugelsdijk to play the lead role in a film about the life of Cristiano Ronaldo. One of the martial arts' greatest acrobats is casually replaced by CBS with a dude who jumps over benches like an elderly man with advanced arthritis. A travesty. The pair are flanked by a can of actors, who have proven more than once in the past to be more useful in a bistro with a menu in hand, so don't expect too much from that either. In the 45-minute first episode, they briefly rip through the entire storyline of Rush Hour I, in the episodes that follow it goes from bad to worse. Uninspired writing, zero chemistry between the two guys who have to wear the show and flat nods to the original that only underline what an incredibly poor rehash this is. Does CBS think that the people who watched the film in '98 are now so degraded that they no longer realize what kind of shit they are getting pushed down their throats? Must be. Leave this good for what it is. It is the best advice you will get today. Unless someone texts now that all Tony's Chocolonely are on offer with the App. Then not.

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CC11 • 26 June 2016, 14:38

I have been denouncing this nonsense of creative anemia for some time now and I invite anyone who disagrees with me to name three titles that were either remakes or based on popular films. Actually, I can bring this number to one and even then there will be no one who can prove otherwise. And believe me when I say things aren't going to get any better because I suspect even the worst is yet to come with "Lethal Weapon" and others. Of course there will be ten to twelve year olds who love these remakes, but anyone old enough to have seen the original knows better. At least I hope so.

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gumstarr • 26 June 2016, 19:58

I assume we're talking about Fargo? Furthermore, it is really to cry, indeed. Lethal Weapon will be the next chain collision and The Exorcist and Dear White People are actually doomed to fail in advance. Still bizarre that the channels themselves just do not want to see.

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CC11 • 26 June 2016, 22:51

Fargo is indeed the big exception to the rule, but there is a very large gap behind it. That such series somehow get "green light" only proves that just about everyone is sick in the same bed. Maybe all decisions these days are made by accountants who think they are playing it safe by taking some blockbuster they have at home on DVD as the next project

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ellenvangenechten10 • 27 June 2016, 09:46

Hannibal wasn't bad after all ....

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CC11 • 27 June 2016, 10:51

You're right, we forgot about that. Probably because the first film was of course "Silence of The Lambs" (1991) and the sequel "Hannibal" (2001) gave a lot less cause for cheering. But even then you still only have 2 series out of dozens of tries of series based on movies that get more than a pass. Actually, just about everything else gets a good fail, unless we forgot another one of course :-)

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anonymous • 27 June 2016, 14:32

Despite the lesser 2nd season, Daredevil is still much better than the movie

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gumstarr • 27 June 2016, 14:44

That is certainly true, but of course Netflix's Daredevil is not so much a remake of Ben Affleck's toes, but rather a serial translation of the comics. Indeed, does not alter the fact that the film was really not the then.

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