Total Box Office: $849.7 million With Brett Ratner at the helm of the buddy cop comedy, it was practically written in stone that the Rush Hour franchise would eventually flounder. Lets give him his dues though: the first instalment, though typically formulaic, did prove a huge box office smash and on a pretty small budget of $33 million. Rush Hour 2 managed to surpass its forerunners box office success despite largely being a 97 minute long gag focused on the culture clash between Chris Rock and Jackie Chans characters, but Ratners cash cow third film proved there was no life left in the franchise with a wholly unfunny offering thats regularly denounced as one of the worst threequels in cinema history. Seemingly content to continue flogging his dead horse, Ratner has spoken of his interest in filming a fourth Rush Hour movie though whether Jackie Chan who once said the Rush Hour films were his least favourite will be involved remains to be seen.
