Rush Hour (1998)

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Rush Hour is an American buddy action comedy film that stars Jackie Chan (Detective Inspector Lee) and Chris Tucker (Detective James Carter) as mismatched cops who must rescue the Chinese consul's (Consul Solon Han) kidnapped daughter.

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What did I learn from Rush Hour?

• Sometimes, one's dream(s) becomes reality in the most unexpected and funny of ways. I admire people who take life happily, make fun out of the seriousness of life, and at the same time, still stay focused on their dreams with optimism, trying to make great use of opportunities that comes around them.

Detective Carter of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), the cop who doesn't go with a partner on cop duties (he had lost his Dad who was also a cop due to the failure of his dad's partner to back him up), unlike his other colleagues in the police department, seemed to be regarded as a joker, a carefree cop in the LAPD. If every cop in the LAPD were to be ranked, he may probably be the last in the hierarchy.

When Agent Dan Whitney (Rex Linn) and Special Agent Warren Russ (Mark Rolston) decided to get a babysitter for Detective Inspector Lee, the Chinese detective whom the FBI want to keep away from their investigations into the kidnapping of the consul's daughter; Captain William Diel (Philip Baker Hall) of the LAPD picked Detective Carter as the pawn for the job. Carter must have felt that his dream of working in the FBI had finally come true, but he received a shock when he learnt he was just a pawn.

But, there was something about Carter's attitude. He thought he will be part of the investigation on the kidnap case, he probably thought he was getting promoted to work with the FBI. After he received the negative news, his attitude wasn't affected by it in anyway. He should've normally got affected by the way the FBI Agents spoke to him and spelt it out to him that he was inferior to them. He didn't reject the assignment but went along with it. However, he didn't just babysit the Chinese detective as he was expected to, he at the same time was making some inquiries, trying to find out from his sources, the person that could be responsible for the kidnap. At the point where it seemed like his contribution and that of Detective Lee were no more needed due to a failed mission, he still was optimistic about solving the kidnap case, and he shared his optimism with Detective Lee who was almost heading back to China, feeling unfulfilled about not rescuing the consul's daughter.

Detective Carter and Detective Inspector Lee worked together, away from the FBI operations, but they were ahead of the FBI, in the investigation of the kidnap. They got the right information, and got to the right places before the FBI got there. At the end of it, they were heroes, rescuing the consul's daughter. But it didn't end there for Detective Carter; he finally got to be appreciated by the FBI, and was offered a job with the FBI (which he turned down).

My lesson from here: 
Enjoy your work, have fun with where you are and what you're doing. Don't let anything or anyone make you feel inferior or make your brand feel inferior. Concentrate on the objective and execute your duties so well that the "superior" brand would come back and show show respect. Limits are only in the mind. You can be better than the best in whatever you do. At the same time, appreciate the contributions of subordinates or team members who are in a lower level than you are. Nobody is really "a boss", but everyone is a boss.

• Some other lessons that would be learnt from the movie includes lessons like doing evil doesn't add up; it will always catch up with the evil doer. Also, one's enemies are sometimes those that are not expected, and who are close, maybe very close to the person.

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