Jackie Chan’s 51% Rotten Tomatoes Buddy Cop Sequel Is Speeding to the Prime of Streaming Charts

January 11, 2025

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Few names in motion motion pictures have the identical degree of recognition as Jackie Chan, who has change into of the most important martial arts stars through the years. Chan has stayed busy over the previous few years with small roles in lower-budget motion motion pictures, however practically 25 years in the past he reunited with a serious star for a film that had returned to streaming charts. Chan stars alongside Chris Tucker in Rush Hour 2, the 2001 buddy cop motion sequel that not too long ago started streaming on Netflix and wasted no time climbing the streamer’s charts. The movie sits at #5 on Netflix on the time of writing and earned scores of 51% from critics and 74% from common audiences on the mixture website Rotten Tomatoes. It additionally grossed $347 million on the field workplace in 2001 in opposition to a $90 million price range.

Ross LaManna and Jeff Nathanson wrote the screenplay for Rush Hour 2, and Brett Ratner directed the movie. Ratner additionally directed the unique Rush Hour and the threequel, which dropped in 1998 and 2007, however his final directorial outing got here greater than 10 years in the past on Hercules, the sword & sandal motion epic starring Dwayne Johnson and Rebecca Ferguson. Ratner can be identified for his work on Tower Heist, the 2011 caper crime comedy starring Eddie Murphy and Casey Affleck that’s at the moment solely out there to lease or buy on Prime Video. He additionally labored with Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart in 2006 on X-Males: The Final Stand, the third and ultimate installment within the unique Fox X-Males trilogy, and he even labored with Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell by directing an episode of Jail Break.

What Else Is Streaming on Netflix?

Squid Sport has been again atop the charts for the reason that premiere of Season 2 with Harlan Coben’s Lacking You additionally following carefully behind within the TV division. Over on the movie facet of the aisle, Cillian Murphy and Chris Hemsworth’s Within the Coronary heart of the Sea has been one of many extra standard motion pictures on Netflix not too long ago, and the tragic sea journey additionally stars Tom Holland. Kevin Costner’s Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 has additionally discovered a house within the Netflix prime 10 after performing so poorly on the theaters in 2024 that its sequel was pulled from the discharge schedule.