Rush Hour 3 (2007)

The best thing to say about "Rush Hour 3" is it's environmentally friendly. The latest Jackie Chan-Chris Tucker collaboration is made entirely of recycled culture-clash jokes, word plays and marginal action scenes from the previous movies.

The set-up: Chan's Inspector Lee and Tucker's Detective (turned traffic cop) James Carter follow a conspiracy involving a crime syndicate from Los Angeles to Paris. That's all I can remember, except the central mystery is so flimsy, it's insulting to anyone older than six. Oh, and there are French jokes galore, because French jokes are so new.

But am I shocked? No. Director Brett Ratner could turn "East of Eden" into a bore if given the chance. I can't bear to remember who wrote, if that's the phrase, the screenplay. Roman Polanski, brilliant director of "Chinatown," appears as a French police official with a penchant for rubber gloves and anal cavity searches. French gay jokes ... woo hoo! This is the film version of biodegradable cardboard left out in the rain. Let's hope there's no Part 4. D