Rush Hour (2016)

Rush Hour, the Jackie Chan-Chris Tucker big-screen martial-arts action-comedy franchise, has now given birth to a noisy and likable TV series.

With only one episode available for review, it’s impossible to determine if Rush Hour is hampered by its need to set up contrasts between the lawmen and solve a crime. Maybe things get better.

A dispiriting, derivative buddy-cop comedy.

We get more bland network-procedural action. [1/8 Apr 2016, p.99]

The pilot is hardly memorable at all, a pale facsimile of a thing that might have been funny, once.

A paint-by-numbers action-comedy.

The jokes that are deployed in Rush Hour, though certainly not the worst I’ve heard on TV recently, are so deeply uninspired, so uncaring in relation to the story and the characters, that the focus on such things leaves a sour aftertaste.