Jackie Chan Movies

While in Paris, Chief Inspector Lee’s (Jackie Chan) latest assignment is to escort and to protect Chinese Ambassador Han as he delivers a major address before the World Criminal Court Summit in Los Angeles. While delivering his announcement, he is shot and nearly killed. Meanwhile, former LAPD Detective James Carter (Chris Tucker), who has recently been demoted to traffic duty, just happens to be listening to the radio when the tragedy occurs. He rushes to the scene to help, but instead interferes with Lee’s pursuit of the culprit. To get his status back, Carter teams up with Lee one more time to help track down the assassins. With the trail leading to Paris, both will find themselves in unfamiliar territory.

Plot

The film starts with Carter (Tucker) directing traffic. Concurrently, Chinese Ambassador Han addresses the importance of fighting the Triads at the World Criminal Court, announcing that he may know the whereabouts of Shy Shen. Suddenly, Han takes a bullet in the shoulder, disrupting the conference. Detective Lee (Chan) pursues the shooter and corners him, discovering that the assassin is his Japanese foster brother Kenji (Sanada). When Lee hesitates to shoot Kenji, Carter, having heard of the shooting on the police radio, shows up driving towards the two; nearly running Lee over, the distraction allows Kenji to escape.

In the hospital, Lee learns that Han will make a full recovery. Han’s daughter, Soo-Yung (Zhang), now grown up, arrives and makes Lee and Carter promise to capture the one behind the shooting. She then informs Lee and Carter that her father gave her an envelope which contains important information regarding the Triad, and that the envelope is in her locker at the martial arts studio where she works. Lee and Carter make their way to the martial arts studio, but find out that a gang of armed men have already arrived and emptied it. The duo are then told by the Master of the studio that Soo-Yung and Han are in danger, and rush back to the hospital.

Once the two reach the hospital, a gang of assassins arrive to kill Soo-Yung and Han. With the help of Soo-Yung, Lee and Carter manage to defeat them. Upon interrogating the leader of the assassins, much to Lee and Carter’s surprise the Asian assassin only speaks French. With the help of a resident nun who translates, they find out that they are marked for death by the Triad along with Soo-Yung and Han. For her protection, they take her to the French Embassy and leave her under the care of Reynard (von Sydow), the French ambassador and the chairman of the World Criminal Court. When a car bomb nearly kills Reynard and Soo-Yung the pair of policemen decide to go to Paris to investigate.

In Paris, (after getting a painful cavity search from a Parisian commissioner (Polanski) Lee and Carter meet up with George, a taxi driver (Attal), who is prejudiced against Americans. George refuses to drive Carter, saying that Americans make him sick, as they are “the most violent people on Earth.” Carter replies by forcing George at gunpoint to drive to a Triad hideout disguised as a gentleman’s club while singing the American anthem. Once there, Lee fights off a Triad assassin named Jasmine (Kudoh) while Carter meets a beautiful woman whose name is not disclosed (Lenoir). Lee and Carter end up forced out of the club and are captured by the Triads. They manage to escape, but then have a falling out concerning Lee’s relationship with Kenji. Shortly after Carter leaves, Reynard appears. Lee asks who is Shy Shen – Reynard tells him that Shy Shen is not a person, but a list of the Triad leaders and reveals that Han’s informant knows where to find it. The informant turns out to be Geneviève, the woman Carter met at the gentlemen’s club; both Lee and Carter end up looking for her.

After the two locate Geneviève, they save her from an assassination attempt by the Triads and flee to their hotel room. However, they are attacked again by Jasmine who sneaks up behind Carter and Genevieve who are making out in bed. When Lee tries to fend her off with his pistol, Jasmine throws a knife in both directions of Carter/Genevieve and Lee. In an attempt to dodge the knife, Lee accidentally shoots Genevieve; Carter becomes visibly upset, claiming Lee wanted to ‘get even’ with Carter. No longer safe at the hotel, they decide to hide out with George, who now has developed a great appreciation for the United States. Lee and Carter learn that Geneviève not only knows where the list is, but that she is the list. The names of the thirteen Triad leaders have been tattooed on the back of her head, as per tradition, and Geneviève explains that she will be decapitated and buried if the Triads capture her. When Lee and Carter bring Geneviève to Reynard, he asks Geneviève to show him the list. Lee points out that they never told him that she had the list imprinted on her head. Reynard then reveals that he has been working with the Triads all along. Kenji calls and informs Lee that he has captured Soo-Yung and that he would like to exchange her for Geneviève, and that he would kill her if he brought Carter or anyone else along with him.

Lee arrives at the exchange point, the Jules Verne Restaurant in the Eiffel Tower, with Carter disguised as Geneviève. Kenji challenges Lee to a sword fight, during which the two fall off the tower and get caught in a safety net. Lee’s sword cuts the safety net open and it collapses, leaving both men hanging on for dear life. Lee grabs Kenji’s arm, intending to save his life and placing his own at risk. Kenji willingly lets go of Lee and falls to his death, saving Lee’s life. Meanwhile, Carter single-handedly defeats the rest of the Triad henchmen and celebrates by dancing to the beat of Carl Douglas’ “Kung Fu Fighting”. He then goes to save Soo-Yung. Jasmine arrives and attempts to kill Soo-Yung and Carter by unlatching the rope Soo-Yung is tied to. Carter grabs the rope before she can fall and grabs Soo Yung, who kicks Jasmine into one of the rotating cranks, which crushes her in half and kills her (off-screen).

As Carter and Lee send Soo-Yung down the elevator, more Triads arrive. In order to escape, Lee and Carter grab and untie a large French flag hanging over the side of the tower and use it as a makeshift parachute and float to safety. Unfortunately, they are confronted by Reynard, holding Geneviève hostage and threatening to kill her, framing Lee and Carter for her murder. However, George, having followed Lee and Carter, shoots Reynard from behind and declares “Case Closed.” The police arrive, with the commissioner from earlier gloating and trying to get undeserved credit. After giving the commissioner a team punch to the face, Lee and Carter leave the scene dancing to Edwin Starr’s “War”.

Cast

• Jackie Chan as Chief Inspector Lee
• Chris Tucker as Detective James Carter
• Hiroyuki Sanada as Kenji
• Yvan Attal as George
• Zhang Jingchu as Soo Yung
• Noemie Lenoir as Genevieve
• Roman Polanski as Detective Commissaire Revi
• Youki Kudoh as Jasmine
• Tzi Ma as Ambassador Solon Han
• Philip Baker Hall as Captain Diel
• Henry O. as Master Yu
• Max Von Sydow as Varden Reynard
• Dana Ivey as “Nun”
• Sun Mingming as Kung-Fu Giant