Tag Archives: Jim Kouf

Rush Hour (1998)

Directed by Brett Ratner, As the FBI scrambles to save the life of the kidnapped daughter of the Chinese Consul, the diplomat hires trusted Hong Kong police detective Lee to find the girl. Unwilling to have their investigation invaded by a meddling outsider, the FBI assigns a rogue LAPD detective to keep Detective Lee away from the case at any cost. Carter, the detective, covertly embarks on a one-man crusade to solve the case, having first distracted Lee. Within hours, Carter realises he has greatly underestimated his Hong Kong counterpart, who has seen through his ruse, given Carter the slip, and landed in the middle of the FBI’s investigation. Both excluded by the FBI, these two cops from very different worlds must join forces to save the young girl.

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Another Stakeout (1993)

Directed by John Badham, Chris and his partner Bill Reimers are back — this time, accompanied by a woman from the district attorney’s office Rosie. Their mission: to case the lakeside home of a Mafia trial witness without blowing their cover, of course. It’s a comic battle of wills among the unlikely trio when things go from bad to worse.

Stakeout (1987)

Directed by John Badham, While on an FBI stakeout, detective Chris falls hard for Mari, the woman he’s supposed to be watching. Soon he’s inside her home enjoying a torrid love affair, while his young partner Bill, waits across the street, looking through his binoculars and fuming. But the woman’s ex-boyfriend, a crazed, escaped convict who is the real object of the stakeout, is on his way back to see her and poses a very dangerous threat to the new couple.

National Treasure (2004)

Directed by Jon Turteltaub, Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin during the Revolutionary War. The chest’s whereabouts may lie in secret clues embedded in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and Gates is in a race to find the gold before his enemies do.

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