China Expresses Some Taste: Bars 'Rush Hour 3' Opening

Published: August 3, 2007, 9:31 am

Tags: not playing in china, notplayinginchina, rush hour 3, rushhour3

Filed under: Action & Adventure, Comedy, New Line, Remakes and SequelsWhen's the last time a Jackie Chan film was barred from playing in China? Probably never, although I'm hardly an expert on such things. But get this: Seems that the all-powerful Chinese Film Bureau has refused to let Brett Ratner's Rush Hour 3 open in their country. Variety indicates that "commercial reasons" are to blame -- a claim that makes little sense since both Rush Hour and Rush Hour 2 did very solid business in China.The "Bureau" is notoriously strict when it comes to certain on-screen activities, and one theory is that the censors were displeased with the plot -- which apparently involves Chinese mafia figures. More likely the members of the Film Bureau felt the same way I did about the lame, lame, lame racial humor. ("Yu! Me! No, you!" Ugh. And the French-bashing. Apparently that just never gets old.) One needs only to view the trailer to see how base and casually racist the humor is -- and now it

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