Rush Hour 3: Poor Physics #1

Motorcyclist goes flying through a windshield from inside of a truck

In this scene, a motorcyclist pursuing Lee and Carter pulls his motorcycle tries to avoid hitting a green bin, hits it and goes flying up. The motorcyclist goes flying (projectile motion) in an arc and into the open back of a truck. He then goes flying UP through the windshield into the windshield of a parked car.

If you pause the scene at 0:04 seconds you can clearly see that he goes flying up.

When he goes flying UP through the windshield it is an example of bad projectile motion. When the cyclist is in the truck he would hit the seats and go flying because of Newton's First Law (Newton). However, his upward motion starts far from the windshield so he should not go flying UP through the windshield. He should fly straight out, down, or not through the windshield at all. The initial speed of the motorcyclist in the truck would be slower considering he would not want to "die". Due to the reduction of the speed he would reach his max height at a lower point than if he traveled at a higher speed. He should not have gone UP through the windshield. If he did travel at a higher speed while he was in the truck, when he started his projectile motion he would have flown too high up when he reached the windshield and would have hit the ceiling of the car. Also, notice how the windshield comes out of the truck WHOLE if the motorcyclist can hit the car's windshield and create a spiderweb of cracks, why is it that a whole windshield come out untouched? He would have either gone through it, shattered it, cracked it, but he would not have pushed it out whole. Therefore, this scene was an example of bad usage of projectile motion.

In reality any one of the illustrated instances should have occurred instead of what did occur.