Minister Warden Reynard
Minister Warden Reynard is the French Ambassador and Chairman of the World Criminal Court in Rush Hour 3. He is portrayed by Max Von Sydow.
History
Reynard first appeared in making his speech about what the Triads do. When Soo Yung was brought to the French Embassy, He told Soo Yung that her father is okay and he said that his people won't leave his side. When Soo Yung told Lee and Carter that they made her a promise, the limo started to explode trying to kill all of them.
In Paris he appeared again in Lee's room discussing that Shy Shen is not a person but a list. He then gives Lee a ticket to find Shy Shen. When Carter, Lee, and Genevieve went to Minister Reynard, they said they had Shy Shen. When Lee said that she was never on the list, They realized that he's been working for the Triads all along. Then when Lee asks why did he come to his room is that he mentioned that Genevieve was going to be killed.
Death
After Lee and Carter fell from then Eiffel tower, they are confronted by Reynard who is holding Genevieve hostage and threatening kill her and frame Lee and Carter for it. When he was about to shoot Genevieve, George shoot's Reynard from behind. The stunned Reynard walks to the water fountain and falls dead into it.
Trivia
- Reynard was close friends with Ambassador Han but Han himself was unaware that Reynard would betray him to work for Kenji's organization.
- Before Reynard's death he tried one last time to stop Lee and Carter by framing them for Genevieve's murder after he would kill her but soon Lee and Carter were saved when their Taxi driver freind George arrived to stop Reynard.
- Reynard is based on Juntao from the first film. Both of them where friends of Ambassador Han and later became a villain in the later part of the film.
- Unlike Juntao, he was the one who was not revealed to Han that he is working for the Triads. But Thomas Griffin reveals himself to Han as Juntao, the leader of the Triads.
- Ever since the beginning of the film, he could have possibly worked for the Triads before he maid his speech about the Triads.
- It's unkown how he found out when Carter and Lee had fallen down from the Eiffel Tower.