Review of RUSH HOUR 3

RUSH HOUR 3 - STORY: An American cop and a Chinese cop team up to recover a list of those in a hidden secret society, to get revenge for the shooting of a Chinese Ambassador and to save the life of the Ambassador's teenage daughter.
RUSH HOUR 3 - MESSAGE: "Cover the back" of teammates. Persistence and skill win the day. Keep your word. Those with good intentions kick the butt of those with evil ones.
RUSH HOUR 3 - WIN: A good example of how lacking the social graces gets one in trouble. Promotes teamwork and respect for other cultures. Promotes use of skill. Promotes celebration of triumph.
RUSH HOUR 3 - LOSE: Promotes saying negative things about groups of people. Revenge is a knee-jerk reaction to opposition, rather than the studied, calmer approach of true justice, which removes harmful people from society. Promotes women as sex objects. Promotes alcohol. Promotes violence to handle bad guys (which may be necessary, but other means are not attempted.) Promotes doing what one feels like despite how it affects others. Promotes blaming others rather than taking responsibility (although it does this (and some of the other things above) in an exagerrated way so that the audience sees that the blame is false, the prejudice unfounded, etc.)
RUSH HOUR 3 - EFFECT ON ME: I've been studying recently the difference between actively seeking understanding of others on the team versus being a rebel, so it was gratifying to see an example of rebel (the American cop/the bad guys) versus a team player (the Chinese cop.)
Sincerely,
Becky Mate
Script Consultant
www.virtueinthearts.com