Rush Hour 3 brings back Chief Inspector Lee and Detective James Carter for a romp in Paris and L.A. Rush Hour 3 lacks the tingle of one's funny bone to make the movie more than the occasional lip turner.

While addressing the World Criminal Court about the Triads, Counsul Han (Tzi Ma) is shot. Chief Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan) and Detective James Carter (Chris Tucker) promises Soo Yung (Jingchu Zhang) that he will find the shooter. Following the clues left, Carter and Lee whisk themselves off to Paris. In Paris they meet the beautiful Genevieve (Noemie Lenoir) and George the cab driver (Yvan Attal) as they try to uncover who the shooter was and who hired them.

Director Brett Ratner told me the reason it took the so long for Rush Hour 3 was that he wanted to get the script right. He should have waited longer. There is barely even a plot holding these action sequences together. The "plot" is just a lose attempt at making a reason for the action scenes.

Brett Ratner also says it is a buddy comedy but there is very little buddy or comedy. The classic buddy comedy one liners are completely absent from this movie. There are no "Bet you didn't know I could do dat did ya!" or "Camel hump" in this movie.

So could the fight scenes throw this movie over the top or even just make up for the lack of plot? Not really. Jackie Chan is definitely still the bad-ass bash and chop action hero of which we are fond. Unfortunately, Chan is no spring chicken and requires a little more assistance than his previous movies. The problem isn't the wires or the green screen backgrounds. The problem is that the director or the studio decided that it wasn't worth paying the money to make the elements using special effects less obvious. You can tell where Chan and Tucker are using wires in scenes which were unnecessary in the first place but with just a little more money could've been better. The green screens aren't any better. Some of them are downright cheesy and reminded me of The Beginning of the End.