Roger Ebert: Self - Host
Rush Hour 2/The Princess Diaries/The Deep End/Original Sin/Under the Sun/Dinner With Friends
Siskel & Ebert
Roger Ebert credited as playing...
Self - Host
- Roger Ebert - Host: [reviewing "Rush Hour 2"] The problem with this movie is, Chris Tucker never, shuts, up. He acts less like a cop than like a madman on speed. I was personally embarrassed during a scene in a casino where he starts screaming that the dealer is a racist. I don't think long rants where black guys insult white guys are any funnier than when white guys insult black guys, especially when the white guy hasn't done anything. And the other actors then have to stand around and pretend not to notice that they're in the company of an ego-maniacal motormouth. There are some impressive stunts in the movie, and some funny moments, but basically, "Rush Hour 2" sinks under the weight of Chris Tucker's overacting.
- Richard Roeper - Host: He's DEADLY! He is so deadly, and he thinks if he's loud, that means he's funny, and I guess we think- we're supposed to think so too, because he's the co-star of this film, but he is just fingernails on the chalkboard, this guy. I don't wanna see him do anything, and yeah, Jackie Chan does great stunts. We can see him do that in fifty other movies. So I think this thing is a real bomb.
- Roger Ebert - Host: What you have to do, it seems to me, is Chris Tucker has to agree to be a character, to play a character, to be a character we recognize as human instead of simply walking like a stand-up comic into every situation...
- Richard Roeper - Host: Yeah.
- Roger Ebert - Host: ...And just firing in every direction.
- Richard Roeper - Host: And keep saying "I'm a black man, I'm a black man." There's a lot of stuff here that's almost like CHARLIE Chan and Stepin Fetchit stuff, just insult-based on race. It's really an ugly film.
- Roger Ebert - Host: If he were a white guy doing the reverse of what he's doing, it would be too racist to film.
- Richard Roeper - Host: It's an unfunny mess.