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Rush Hour (1998)

Directed by Brett Ratner · Cinematography by Adam Greenberg

PG-1398 min117 frames

ActionComedyCrime

The fastest hands in the East meet the biggest mouth in the West.

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Rush Hour — official trailer

What is Rush Hour about?

When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the sidelines, Lee and Carter form an unlikely partnership and investigate the case themselves.

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What does the cinematography of Rush Hour look like?

Sampled across 117 frames, the coverage of Rush Hour leans on medium shots (62% of the sample) and wide compositions (17%). Cinematographer Adam Greenberg keeps 48% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Night and dusk account for 52% of the frames. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 71% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1990s.

What is the color palette of Rush Hour?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Rush Hour (1998) are #2f2d2d, #0e0d0d, #f8f8f7, #d4d3cf, #52504e, #8d908d — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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