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Article: `Rush Hour 2'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- August 1, 2001
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No offense to antic martial artist Jackie Chan and frantic chatterbox Chris Tucker if I say that their capers are not the high point of "Rush Hour 2."
For me, the movie really takes off when Hu Li ("Crouching Tiger's" Zhang Ziyi), fearless henchwoman of a Hong Kong gangster, kickboxes Isabella Molina (Roselyn Sanchez), an American Secret Service agent.
First Ziyi, clad in a sleek retro black-and-red pantsuit, thrusts high her booted heel at Sanchez. Then Sanchez, poured into a white spandex dress, slamdances back, her stiletto tangling up in Ziyi's bootheel like crossed sabers.
This sequence alone is worth a dozen "Charlie's Angels." It is a ...