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Rush Hour

1998 · directed by Brett Ratner · 97 min · PG-13
23,128 feet · Prominence
1,329th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw70

Lifetime worldwide gross $245m, re-releases included; about $495m in 2026 money.

Rank629 of 11,051In 199815 of 198

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise62

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics62 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy48

Judged directly: Chan-Tucker buddy-cop, widely quoted.

Verdict48 of 100IMDb7 from 326kWikipedia52k views a monthAge28 years

Scored beside it · 1,215 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 70 praise 62 legacy 48averages 60, placing it at23,128 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Chris Tucker

In these careers — elevation for this film

Chris Tucker20,101 ftJackie Chan19,574 ftTom Wilkinson18,230 ftElizabeth Peña18,020 ftPhilip Baker Hall17,955 ftChris Penn17,844 ftJohn Hawkes17,655 ft