Jackie Chan admitted a while back that, despite him signing up for three movies in the Rush Hour chop socky franchise, he didn't have much of a clue as to what the actual joke was. Film historians may well look back with similar bafflement, as here you had a series starring a Hong Kong icon and a black comedian that nevertheless spent a lot of time being a tad racist. Chris Tucker (a generally underrated actor in my book) went full throttle in a performance best described as Prince possessed by the spirit of Inspector Clouseau. He was always the butt of the joke, leering misguidedly over attractive women and showing a standard American misunderstanding of mismatched partner Chan's culture. The filmmakers were already on the naughty step for that, but when they wrote in a "funny" scene where Tucker accidentally punched Chan before admitting: "All ya'll look alike!"...? Man, they were just asking for a tin opener and a family size can of whup ass...