Another 48 Hrs. (1990)

Perfect cast and a good story

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Absolutely Brilliant!

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

At first, the sax and steel drum score was a welcome sound. But "Another 48 Hrs." has unnecessary written all over it. You can tell Eddie Murphy is enjoying greater star power here, but his relationship with Nick Nolte is disjointed. And when you factor in the retread (more bickering, another bar scene) and anemic bad guys, this just doesn't have any of the original's spark.What really surprised me is how bad the action scenes are. I mean, they are atrocious. It's got the comical reactions to gunshots that are characteristic of a loud and excessive - but ultimately really dull - action movie.5/10

A rehash of the first one, but still a poignant, gripping story that glues you to your seat from the start to the finish. This cast interacts with absolute precision, whether walking around a room or interrupting each others' wisecracks. The script and direction meld into a strong movie. What's best is that not one character ever withdraws tongue from cheek. I found the acting to be sensational, the dialogue incredible and the director's abilities to be up to par and then some. It reminds me of some of those sombre German films that were popular back in the 1990s. An awesome, good surprise for me this little movie was, so that I highly recommend it. Rating equals 7 out of 10 stars.

Another 48 Hrs isn't a sequel to Walter Hill's 1982 movie "48 Hrs" it's a clone. Following the theory that success is not to be tampered with, director Walter Hill has paired up convict Eddie Murphy with cop Nick Nolte and poured them in to story little change from the original. Just like the first movie, Murphy is released from prison and must unwillingly help Nolte solve a crime in 48 Hrs. They happy ending of the first movie is long since gone, and the two don't like each other again. Presumably, so we can have the same bickering banter all movie before the out their differences aside and take down the bad guys as in the first movie. The score is reused from the first movie as is the song 'The Boys Are Back In Town'. As well as all that all the best scenes from the first movie are duplicated here.To be fair the story has been updated a little bit, Nolte is no longer permanently hungover, his wife has left him and Murphy is out of prison permanently.Crude, mindless, foul mouthed and violent. This film plods along grabbing every easy laugh along the way. Not as good as the first one, but a more than watchable movie, staring Eddie Murphy wearing his "I'm only in this for the money" trademark grin.

ANOTHER 48 HRS is the sequel to the hugely successful Eddie Murphy/Nick Nolte team-up 48 HRS, and the producers at Paramount clearly followed the old "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" adage because this one copies almost exactly the same formula as the first film. Walter Hill is back directing, Murphy and Nolte are back as the leads, and the storyline is virtually the same as in the first.Sadly, the law of diminishing returns hits this film hard, making it a shadow of his predecessor (which I found to be only an averagely entertaining movie at best). Every scene, situation and shoot-out is overly familiar, and absolutely nothing that happens - even in regard to the twist involving the villains' identity - is a surprise. Murphy's high-wire, sometimes frenzied acting helps add much needed energy to the production, but Nolte is sleepwalking and indeed appears half asleep in this movie.Still, on the plus side the pacing is fast and quite a lot of the humour works well. Hill's directing can't be faulted, and he's fleshed out his supporting cast with a number of familiar faces from the '80s: Kevin Tighe as the IA man, Brion James and Ed O'Ross cast against type as cops, and an early role for WISHMASTER's Andrew Divoff as the baddie. It's just a shame more original material couldn't be found to sustain all of this.