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- Lethal Weapon. Any "Rush Hour" fan that somehow hasn't seen "Lethal Weapon" is doing themselves a great disservice. While not the first-ever mismatched buddy cop movie, it reinvented the genre and has served as the gold standard ever since.
- 21 Jump Street. From "Starsky & Hutch" to "CHiPs" and beyond, there's no shortage of movies that have tried to recapture the magic of cop shows from the '70s and '80s.
- Hot Fuzz. With "Shaun of the Dead," director Edgar Wright and his co-writer (and star) Simon Pegg showed their unparalleled aptitude at creating movies that can simultaneously satirize a genre but also be a genuinely great example of a film within that genre.
- Charlie's Angels (2000) "Rush Hour" fans shouldn't limit themselves to just buddy cop movies. There are other films with a similar blend of comedy and stylized action that should scratch that particular itch, such as the 2000 film adaptation of "Charlie's Angels."
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Mar 14, 2003 · probably the better american-produced jackie chan movies. while i don't think they hold a candle to his hong kong efforts, most of which are probably helped by the fact that he himself is directing the action, which american "buddy-cop" series do you think is stronger?
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Michael Bay’s high-octane direction of Bad Boys instantly solidified his reputation as an action filmmaker to be reckoned with. The plot revolves around two Miami cops protecting a murder witness and searching for a case of stolen heroin. Bad Boys follows the Rush Hourformula of pairing a traditional action hero with a quick-witted comedian, as Wil...
Anchorman’s Adam McKay put his own uniquely absurdist spin on the “buddy cop” genre with The Other Guys. McKay’s go-to leading man, Will Ferrell, plays Allen Gamble, a mild-mannered police accountant opposite Mark Wahlberg as Terry Hoitz, a hotshot cop who’s been stuck behind a desk since he accidentally shot Derek Jeter. The Other Guys has a nice ...
Rush Hour isn’t the only buddy actioner that Chan has starred in. In between team-ups with Tucker, Chan paired up with a different comedian for a different action-comedy. In Shanghai Noon, Chan plays Chon Wang, a Chinese Imperial Guard who travels to the American West and pairs up with gunslinging outlaw Roy O'Bannon, played by Owen Wilson, to resc...
After proving that women can have just as much fun as men in a Hangover-style raunchy comedy with Bridesmaids, director Paul Feig proved that women can kick just as much butt in an action movie with The Heat, a female-led take on the “buddy cop” genre. Sandra Bullock plays a straitlaced FBI agent as the “straight man” alongside Melissa McCarthy as ...
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller subverted the expectations of the 21 Jump Street reboot with an in-universe reboot of a decades-old police program that nobody cares about. Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum respectively star as Morton Schmidt and Greg Jenko, a couple of cops who are sent undercover to a high school to investigate a new drug that’s been...
Midnight Run is one of the few “buddy cop” movies in which neither of the main characters is a cop. Robert De Niro stars as bounty hunter Jack Walsh opposite Charles Grodin as Jonathan Mardukas, a misunderstood mafia accountant and Walsh's latest bounty. As De Niro and Grodin are chased across the United States by feds, mobsters, and other bounty h...
The Nice Guys isn’t so much a “buddy cop” movie as a “buddy private eye” movie. Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe star as Holland March and Jackson Healy, a private detective and enforcer who reluctantly team up when they realize they’ve been separately hired for the same case. Much like Chan and Tucker in Rush Hour, Gosling and Crowe initially don’t ...
The second entry in Edgar Wright’s genre-bending Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy, Hot Fuzz, plants the conventions of the “buddy cop” genre in a sleepy English village with a suspiciously high accident rate. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost anchor the movie with their unmatched on-screen chemistry as Nicholas Angel, a hypercompetent big-city cop and Danny...
Eddie Murphy rose to stardom with his lead role in Beverly Hills Cop as Axel Foley, a Detroit lawman who travels to California to track down his best friend’s killer and butts heads with the local police. Thanks to Murphy’s powerhouse performance, Beverly Hills Cop is one of the funniest movies like Rush Hour. The role of Axel Foley gave Murphy amp...
Mel Gibson and Danny Glover headline Lethal Weapon as Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh, a pair of recently partnered cops who have to put their differences aside in their pursuit of a gang of drug smugglers. One of the oldest “buddy cop” movies, Lethal Weapon established a lot of the tropes and trademarks of the genre, particularly the character dyn...
May 25, 2000 · Shanghai Noon is the latest American effort from Hong Kong action mega-star Jackie Chan. Considerably more genuine and propulsive than Rush Hour (his previous film), Shanghai Noon is a...
I like these better than the Rush Hours. Tucker and Owen are both excellent playing opposite Chan in both series, but the Shanghai series seems to offer Jackie better venues for his elaborate fight sequences.
May 26, 2000 · Reviews. Shanghai Noon. Roger Ebert May 26, 2000. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. The best way to criticize a movie, Jean-Luc Godard once said, is to make another movie. In that spirit, "Shanghai Noon" is the answer to " Wild Wild West ," although I am not sure these are the kinds of movies Godard had in mind.
