![]() But in "Money Talks,'' where he has more of a character to develop and an opportunity to experiment with his voice and style, Tucker has a personal triumph. Watching that movie, I felt the Tucker role derailed the ending by continuing too long on the wrong note, as a distraction. You may remember Tucker from " The Fifth Element," where his character went on endlessly, as an emcee in a nightclub on a space station. He isn't, and that's just as well, because he's handcuffed to Franklin Hatchett, the Chris Tucker character, and we're going to need him for the rest of the movie. The plot is so dumb that at one point, terrorists blow up a prison bus so that their leader can escape, and no one even considers the possibility that, gee, maybe the leader could get blown up along with everyone else on the bus. ![]() It's a clone of the black-white buddy pictures, with a little of "48 Hrs." and " Lethal Weapon" and " Nothing to Lose" thrown in. ![]() But how did he get his foot in the door in the first place? How did they know they should hand him the scenery and a knife and fork? I wonder because in "Money Talks,'' a comedian named Chris Tucker has his own foot jammed in the same door, and you can see his talent blossom right there before your eyes. How does a guy like Jim Carrey get his first chance to perform anarchic comedy in a movie? Now that he's a star, directors are, of course, happy to let him run wild.
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