Rush Hour
“The fastest hands in the East meet the biggest mouth in the West.”
When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the sidelines, Lee and Carter form an unlikely partnership and investigate the case themselves.
How Rush Hour compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of Rush Hour, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #1 of 3
- Rank in the series by rating
- The first film
- Where it sits in the series
- 41%
- Share of the series audience
Rush Hour (1998) is the highest-rated of the 3 rated films in the Rush Hour series, at 7.1/10 on TMDB against a series average of 6.8/10.
It is the film that started the series, 9 years before the most recent entry, Rush Hour 3 (2007).
Its 6,040 TMDB ratings are 41% of the 14,848 cast across the series, more than any other film in it.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for Rush Hour, comparing all 3 released films in the series. Last recalculated November 2026.
