Rush Hour 2

Packed with dastardly Triads, smuggling operations and fights down the docks, it's action-movie-by-numbers - but for Jackie Chan's acrobatic antics.

The film's most rewarding surprising, though, is how confident both men have become in stepping into each other's territory...

The action, which culminates in an over-the-top melee at the newly opened Red Dragon casino, is spectacular...

The two excitable personas,felicitously matched shtick figures, enhanced one another'sstrengths and, in the process, solidified their own identitiesfor melting-pot ticket buyers new to either of them.