James Lew

James Lew films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 22 films on Boxlist

Known for Star Trek, Traffic and Tropic Thunder.

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Starring James Lew

  1. Star Trek

    Star Trek

    2009 · Film

    7.4/10 · TMDB

    The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes...

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  2. Traffic

    Traffic

    2000 · Film

    7.1/10 · TMDB

    An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing...

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  3. Tropic Thunder

    Tropic Thunder

    2008 · Film

    6.6/10 · TMDB

    Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. lead an ensemble cast in 'Tropic Thunder,' an action comedy about a group of self-absorbed actors who set out to make the most expensive war film. After ballooning costs force the studio to...

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  4. Rush Hour

    Rush Hour

    1998 · Film

    7.0/10 · TMDB

    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...

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  5. Big Trouble in Little China

    Big Trouble in Little China

    1986 · Film

    7.2/10 · TMDB

    When trucker Jack Burton agreed to take his friend, Wang Chi, to pick up his fiancee at the airport, he never expected to get involved in a supernatural battle between good and evil. Wang's fiancee has emerald green eyes, which make her a...

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  6. Hot Shots! Part Deux

    Hot Shots! Part Deux

    1993 · Film

    6.5/10 · TMDB

    Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue the last rescue team—who went in to rescue hostages left...

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  7. Safe

    Safe

    2012 · Film

    6.4/10 · TMDB

    After a former elite agent rescues a 12-year-old Chinese girl who's been abducted, they find themselves in the middle of a standoff between Triads, the Russian Mafia and high-level corrupt New York City politicians and police.

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  8. Rapid Fire

    Rapid Fire

    1992 · Film

    6.4/10 · TMDB

    College student Jake Lo is pursued by smugglers, mobsters and crooked federal agents after he witnesses a murder by a Mafia kingpin.

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  9. Rush Hour 2

    Rush Hour 2

    2001 · Film

    6.7/10 · TMDB

    It's vacation time for Carter as he finds himself alongside Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excitement. While Carter wants to party and meet the ladies, Lee is out to track down a Triad gang lord who may be responsible for killing two...

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  10. Escape from L.A.

    Escape from L.A.

    1996 · Film

    5.9/10 · TMDB

    This time, a cataclysmic temblor hits Los Angeles, turning it into an island. The president views the quake as a sign from above, expels Los Angeles from the country and makes it a penal colony for those found guilty of moral crimes. When...

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  11. The Shadow

    The Shadow

    1994 · Film

    6.0/10 · TMDB

    Based on the 1930's comic strip, puts the hero up against his arch enemy, Shiwan Khan, who plans to take over the world by holding a city to ransom using an atom bomb. Using his powers of invisibility and "The power to cloud men's minds"...

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  12. Lethal Weapon 4

    Lethal Weapon 4

    1998 · Film

    6.6/10 · TMDB

    In the combustible action franchise's final installment, maverick detectives Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh square off against Asian mobster Wah Sing Ku, who's up to his neck in slave trading and counterfeit currency. With help from...

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  13. Timecop

    Timecop

    1994 · Film

    6.0/10 · TMDB

    An officer for a security agency that regulates time travel, must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past.

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  14. Undercover Blues

    Undercover Blues

    1993 · Film

    6.1/10 · TMDB

    When fun-loving American agents Dennis Quaid and Kathleen Turner are called back from maternity leave for a special assignment in New Orleans, the spy parents decide to skip the sitter and give their bouncing baby girl the adventure of a...

  15. Showdown in Little Tokyo

    Showdown in Little Tokyo

    1991 · Film

    6.3/10 · TMDB

    An American with a Japanese upbringing, Chris Kenner is a police officer assigned to the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles. Kenner is partnered with Johnny Murata, a Japanese-American who isn't in touch with his roots. Despite their...

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  16. The Replacement Killers

    The Replacement Killers

    1998 · Film

    6.2/10 · TMDB

    Hired assassin John Lee is asked by Chinatown crime boss Terence Wei to murder the young son of policeman Stan Zedkov. Lee has the boy in his sights, but his conscience gets the better of him, and he spares the child's life. Afraid that...

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  17. Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

    Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

    1995 · Film

    5.7/10 · TMDB

    A passenger train has been hijacked by an electronics expert and turned into an untraceable command center for a weapons satellite. He has planned to blow up Washington DC and only one man can stop him, former Navy SEAL Casey Ryback.

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  18. G.I. Joe: Retaliation

    G.I. Joe: Retaliation

    2013 · Film

    5.6/10 · TMDB

    Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by Presidential order. This forces the G.I. Joes into not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government...

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  19. Rush Hour 3

    Rush Hour 3

    2007 · Film

    6.4/10 · TMDB

    After a botched assassination attempt, the mismatched duo finds themselves in Paris, struggling to retrieve a precious list of names, as the murderous crime syndicate's henchmen try their best to stop them. Once more, Lee and Carter must...

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  20. Superhero Movie

    Superhero Movie

    2008 · Film

    5.2/10 · TMDB

    The team behind Scary Movie takes on the comic book genre in this tale of Rick Riker, a nerdy teen imbued with superpowers by a radioactive dragonfly. And because every hero needs a nemesis, enter Lou Landers, aka the villainously goofy...

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  21. On Deadly Ground

    On Deadly Ground

    1994 · Film

    4.7/10 · TMDB

    Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's corrupt CEO is the kind of person who doesn't care whether or not oil spills into the ocean or onto the land—just as long as it's making...

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  22. American Ninja 5

    American Ninja 5

    1993 · Film

    4.6/10 · TMDB

    When a scientists daughter is kidnapped, American Ninja, attempts to find her, but this time he teams up with a youngster he has trained in the ways of the ninja.

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