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Movies that feel likeRush Hour 2 (2001)

It's vacation time for Carter as he finds himself alongside Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excitement. While Carter wants to party and meet the ladies, Lee is out to track down a Triad gang lord who may be responsible for killing two men at the American Embassy. Things get complicated as the pair stumble onto a counterfeiting plot. The boys are soon up to their necks in fist fights and life-threatening situations. A trip back to the U.S. may provide the answers about the bombing, the counterfeiting, and the true allegiance of sexy customs agent Isabella.

If you loved Rush Hour 2, the closest films we have are 22 Jump Street (2014), Tower Heist (2011) and The Other Guys (2010). All three share Rush Hour 2's kinetic and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is I Went Down (1997).

🍅 50% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Brett Ratnerkineticwittyplayfulgrittywarm
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Rush Hour (1998) · Rush Hour 3 (2007)

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22 Jump Street
2014 · dir. Phil Lord
🍅 84%★ 7crime · comedy · actionNetflixParamount+

The same preoccupation in both: buddy cop

The difference: Reviewed even better

After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, and Schmidt infiltrates the bohemian art major scene, they begin to question their partnership. Now they don't have to just crack the case - they have to figure out if they can have a mature relationship. If these two overgrown adolescents can grow from freshmen into real men, college might be the best thing that ever happened to them.

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Tower Heist
2011 · dir. Brett Ratner
🍅 67%★ 6.2action · comedy

Both are Brett Ratner's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Takes it somewhere less gritty than Rush Hour 2 does

A luxury condo manager leads a staff of workers to seek payback on the Wall Street swindler who defrauded them. With only days until the billionaire gets away with the perfect crime, the unlikely crew of amateur thieves enlists the help of petty crook Slide to steal the $20 million they’re sure is hidden in the penthouse.

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The Other Guys
2010 · dir. Adam McKay
🍅 78%★ 6.7comedy · action · crimeNetflixStarz

Both keep coming back to the same thing: buddy cop

Unlike their heroic counterparts on the force, desk-bound NYPD detectives Gamble and Hoitz garner no headlines as they work day to day. When a seemingly minor case turns out to be a big deal, the two cops get the opportunity to finally prove to their comrades that they have the right stuff.

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Knockin' on Heaven's Door
1997 · dir. Thomas Jahn
★ 7.8comedy · crime · action

Both land momentum and wit at once

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Rush Hour 2 does

Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box.

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I Went Down
1997 · dir. Paddy Breathnach
🍅 84%★ 6.7action · comedy · crimePrime Video

The same mix in both: play, then grit

Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git's girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He's now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork with another debtor, Bunny Kelly, to find a guy named Frank Grogan, and take him to a man with a friendly face at a shack across a bog. It's a tougher assignment than it seems: Git's a novice, Bunny's prone to rash acts, Frank doesn't want to be found (and once he's found, he has no money), and maybe Tom's planning to murder Frank, which puts Git in a moral dilemma. Then, there's the long-ago disappearance of Sonny Mulligan. What's a decent and stand-up lad to do?

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Bad Boys
1995 · dir. Michael Bay
🍅 46%★ 6.8action · thriller · crime

Both lean on warmth more than on action

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Rush Hour 2 does

Marcus Burnett is a henpecked family man. Mike Lowrey is a footloose and fancy free ladies' man. Both Miami policemen, they have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of the sole witness to a murder, they have to pretend to be each other.

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Mr. Nice Guy
1997 · dir. Sammo Hung
🍅 45%★ 6.3crime · action · comedy

Common ground: martial arts

A Chinese chef accidentally gets involved with a news reporter who filmed a drug bust that went awry and is now being chased by gangs who are trying to get the video tape.

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Kopps
2003 · dir. Josef Fares
★ 6.7action · comedy

Kinetic comedy, and it commits to that

A small Swedish village, Högboträsk, is so peaceful that crime is nonexistent. The police spend their shifts drinking coffee, eating hot dogs and chasing down runaway cows. This is all well and good for the village's own police, but the police management board wants to discontinue the local police force for lack of crime.

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The Legend of Drunken Master
1994 · dir. Lau Kar-leung
🍅 85%★ 7.5action · comedy

Both are built on the same subject: martial arts

Returning home with his father after a shopping expedition, Wong Fei-Hong is unwittingly caught up in the battle between foreigners who wish to export ancient Chinese artifacts and loyalists who don't want the pieces to leave the country. Fei-Hong must fight against the foreigners using his Drunken Boxing style, and overcome his father's antagonism as well.

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Pain & Gain
2013 · dir. Michael Bay
🍅 49%★ 6.4comedy · crime · actionParamount+Starz

Witty crime in both cases

Daniel Lugo, manager of the Sun Gym in 1990s Miami, decides that there is only one way to achieve his version of the American dream: extortion. To achieve his goal, he recruits musclemen Paul and Adrian as accomplices. After several failed attempts, they abduct rich businessman Victor Kershaw and convince him to sign over all his assets to them. But when Kershaw makes it out alive, authorities are reluctant to believe his story.

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Beverly Hills Cop II
1987 · dir. Tony Scott
🍅 48%★ 6.6action · comedy · crime

Action built on play, twice over

Axel Foley returns to the land of sunshine and palm trees to investigate the near-fatal shooting of police Captain Andrew Bogomil. With the help of Sgt. Taggart and Det. Rosewood, they soon uncover that the shooting is associated with a series of "alphabet" robberies masterminded by a heartless weapons kingpin—and the chase is on.

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Taxi 3
2003 · dir. Gérard Krawczyk
★ 5.8action · comedy · crime

Comedy with a pulse of grit, in both cases

A gang of thieves calling themselves the Santa Claus Gang are wreaking havoc, and the police can't keep up. Police Captain Gilbert is distracted by a Chinese reporter writing a story on his squad, and taxi driver Daniel is in the midst of a relationship crisis. After a string of mistakes in which the thieves outsmart the police time and time again, Daniel and his super-taxi pitch in.

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