The Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker starrer and the third installment of their Rush Hour series has defied the critics and bad reviews to top the Box Office this week with US$ 50.2 million according to New Line Cinema estimates. This was enough to push last weeks topper, The Bourne Ultimatum to no. 2 with US$ 33.7 million. For me, I love the antiques of those two to shell out for the ticket.

This article reports further on this news, ‘Rush Hour 3′ debuts No. 1 at box office :

People rushed to theaters to see the buddy cop comedy Rush Hour 3, making the last of this summer’s big budget Hollywood films the top movie at the weekend box office.

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“Rush Hour 3″ did not do as well as its predecessor, “Rush Hour 2,” which took in $67.4 million when it was released in 2001. But it was the sixth “threequel” of the summer to open as a weekend’s top film and it ranks as the fourth best August opening on record.

Read the full box office news for 08/12/07 at Yahoo!