
Tan reprimands Hu Li for disappointing him and asks if she had forgotten where she is from, and then tells her not to forget who she works for.

She appears again while on her boss Ricky Tan's yacht in the middle of Hong Kong harbor, Carter spots her as she goes down to the main deck to meet with her boss. Soon after his office explodes frightening all of the police officers present. After Carter leaves the police station Lee returns to his office after speaking with Sterling and his boss Captain Chin. When he blows a kiss to her, she shuts the door, leaving him dumbfounded. Carter comes out and flirts with her not knowing that she is the same woman who knocked him off the bamboo building the night before. She later goes into the Yau Ma Tei Police Station disguised as a delivery woman again and walks towards Lee's office. Later, along with some triad members, she dumps Lee and Carter off on the freeway after capturing them from the massage parlor and stripping them of their clothes. He attempts to rescue Lee, but she sneaks up behind him and as Lee tries to warn him about Hu Li being right behind him, knocks him off the building with the bamboo stick, leaving the two cops hanging from the building while she flees again. As she prepares to finish him off, she hears noises coming from the doors and flees as soon as Carter arrives. Once Lee reaches the top, she knocks him off the building with a large bamboo stick, which leaves Lee hanging from the bent bamboo. He gives chase to her and the Triads and Carter follows, which leads them all the way to a bamboo building in the marketplace of Hong Kong. Later at the bar, where Carter and Lee are looking for Ricky Tan, Lee spots her as soon as she goes through She stops by the cook and says "Somebody better call the police". Shortly after delivering the package, she walks out onto the street near a cook and soon, the building explodes. Hu Li first appears at the beginning of the film, disguised in a blond wig and holding a package while walking into an office building at the American Embassy. She is a very pretty, slender young Chinese woman, but also vicious, dangerous, ruthless, sadistic and psychotic. She was portrayed by Zhang Ziyi, who also played Jen Yu in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and Sayuri in Memoirs of A Geisha. She is presented as James Carter's main rival in the film. Hu Li was the secondary antagonist of the 2001 action/comedy film sequel Rush Hour 2.

~ Hu Li (in Mandarin) as she limping towards Lee and Carter holding a time bomb. ~ Hu Li to Lee (in Mandarin) when the Triads arm their weapons to both Lee and Carter. In those precious, post-kick moments, Rush Hour 2 achieves a near state of bliss.The great Chief Inspector Lee, I'll be remembered for getting rid of you. How droll! Zhang Ziyi is the film’s saving grace if only because the beauty has a way of sweetly knocking Tucker into silent surrender. Carter may want to bitch slap Lee back to Bangkok but Lee later returns the threat by saying he wants to bitch slap Carter back to Africa. Rush Hour 2 isn’t even bad enough to merit a lengthy tirade so why mince words when this film is too bland to even deserve this dismissive paragraph? Despite the film’s preponderance of cheap racial jokes (Tucker’s Detective Carter accidentally punches Chan’s Inspector Lee, his apologia grounded in a brother’s opinion that all Asians look alike), the film is all equal opportunity. When speaking to a colleague last week, I suggested that great movies ( Apocalypse Now Redux) are worthy of lengthy discourse. Still, fools rush in to celebrate their bland vaudeville routines.

Jackie Chan lost his grace years ago and Chris Tucker has the voice and personality only a blind/deaf canine could love unconditionally.
