Versões alternativas

The DVD includes several deleted scenes:

• a bit of banter between Carter and Lee before they enter the nightclub.
• Carter talks to Captain Diel (Philip Baker Hall) over the phone and gets berated for doing police work in Hong Kong.
• When Carter is wandering through the marketplace and asking for the massage parlor, he mistakenly asks an old man in Cantonese if he can spank his daughter with a ping-pong paddle.
• Carter talks his way in to the yacht party by claiming to be the band's lead singer.
• On the flight back to L.A., Carter loudly sings along to Stevie Wonder's "Superstition".
• An extended version of the scene in which Carter and Lee try to get rid of the "bomb" at the hotel.
• The original version of the scene in the truck. In this version, Carter and Lee are not tied up and they find the counterfeit money in large wooden boxes.
• At the Red Dragon casino, Carter pulls Steven Reign aside and they exchange sarcastic remarks.
• Different takes of Chris Tucker's ad-libbed speech to Hu Li after their fight.
• Different takes of Chris Tucker ad-libbing the name of his "good friend" in San Juan.
• Different takes of Jeremy Piven ad-libbing during his cameo.

The televised version aired on Fox, 6 May 2005 included alternate footage to replace questionable language. The new footage included:

• 1) Lee saying "Stop, I am sick of your bullshit" was changed to "Stop, I am sick of your baloney."
• 2) James Carter saying "Yeah, this is my titty - I mean, yeah, this is my city"; the alternate footage changes it to "Yeah, that's right."
• 3) Ricky Tan's line "I hate that fortune cookie shit" was changed to "Where did you get that? In a fortune cookie?" This shot is noticeably changed from the original - it features an even tighter close-up of John Lone's face to the point where the film grain is very evident.