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Summary: Instead of Sequal...They Should've Re-Made This One...
Review: Falling into the same genre as 'Beverly Hills Cop', 1982's '48 HRS.' takes the good-cop, bad-crook scene and transforms it to fit Eddie Murphy's talents on a different scale. Instead of chasing high-profile criminals as 'Detective Axel Foley', Murphy portrays a loud-mouth convict teamed up with a hardass detective Jack Cates. Nick Nolte's roll as this chain smoking, trash-talking, loveable sleezbag sort of shadows performances by John Wayne and Clint Eastwood...only in a new age. The low-flash scene is set in California, where Cates (Nolte) loses a battle with two escape conns along with his gun...leaving two more plain-clothed officers dead. The thing I think you need to remember when watching these movies is that the lead cops never dressed in uniform, and you'll see more covertable classic 70s' cars than marked squad cars. Otherwise, Nolte is the perfect grunge policeman who teams up with Reggie Hammond (Murphy) to catch a ruthless killer who Murphy once sided with. From the moment Nolte takes Murphy out of jail for 48 hours, you can sense the racial heat and explosive attitudes of the two. This proved to make for a perfect comedy, as Nolte and Murphy race to kill the killers without killing eachother. Murphy has a classic scene in a highly exaggerated country western bar, where the confederate flag is on every wall and "yee-haw!" is a common thing to hear. Murphy raises the roof of the bar in a hilarious scene that could only work with this guy. 'Another 48 HRS' 10 years later was a predicted mistake, instead I think the director should've considered remaking the original scene and plot, but using the flash and movie effects not available in 1982. Maybe put a better suit on Nolte or give'em a hotter car...dont use women you would rather see with their clothes ON than off, and make the fight sequences and assaults more realistic. '48 HRS.' still never stops working though, you give a great idea to talented actors and you can make tons of mistakes while still having a great movie. '48 HRS' also features plugs from Annette O'Toole (Law and Order), Sonny Landham ('Lock-Up', 'Predator') and what-ever-happened-to Tara King ('The Avengers'). Dont wait for this movie to be on tv, if you dont hear all the language it doesnt work. Get this movie on DVD while its' still available...but just dont expect to find as great a movie in the sequal.
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Summary: A hard a**ed cop and an out in left field con.
Review: Good music, good action and a movie which keeps your attention. Probably actually how it is accomplished in the real world. A bench mark for other cop thriller movies to measure up to.
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Summary: Good un pc movie
Review: i enjoyed eddie going into the bar and what have you.he was the film period.the film was very un-pc in it's use of stereotypes and what not.Nick Nolte was a bigot mad at world Archie Bunker type Cop.two worlds seemingly different but by films end very much alike.the only down side aside from the racial slurs which were loaded enough was that Eddie's character had no background once upon release.but a good film.
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Summary: A Classic Movie, DVD Has Some Missing Scenes.
Review: Im not a video buff but when I used to shop here, I bought a few of my favorite movies on DVD. This was one of them, its' not remastered or anything its' simply that DVDs' last waaaaaay longer than VHS tapes. Paramount Pictures' '48 HRS.' came at the right time and in the right form, there were BIG reasons it made over $80m. at the box office in no time. SNL star Eddie Murphy who had never done a picture, was picked up by Walter Hill at age 21 to star along side veteran actor Nick Nolte in this, the kind of movie nobody had ever seen before. It was a low budget, very basic film with a few mistakes like scenes that were filmed for the middle or end of the movie were spliced into the beginning, but '48 HRS.' started the entire craze that has now become something all actors and filmmakers can rely on..the scenerio that is. Detective Jack Cates (Nolte) is the sloppy, alcohol-chugging and chain-smoking edgy cop, who gets a smooth-talking B.S. artist convict (Eddie Murphy) out of jail for 48 hours to hunt down a ruthless escape killer (A young James Remar) and his partner (former 70s' porn star Sonny Landham). Drenched with racial tention between the two, graphically foul language and a few nude women, the movie has a rough edge that is still admired today, 21 years later. I see these ads for movies like 'Bad Company' this and 'Bad Boys' that..hey, if you're a fan of the actors or just bored one night theres your movie but in reality they ssssuck. '48 HRS.' layed the groundwork, without which there would BE no 'Training Day', 'Rush Hour', 'Enemy of the State'...not the exact way they were made anyway. The intense 1982 comedy/drama began inspiring film and tv in less than a year in fact..1984's 'Beverly Hills Cop' which was originally written for Sylvester Stallone, became another spin-off of the '48 HRS.' story as did 'Miami Vice', 'Stakeout', 'Lethal Weapon' and others that were huge hits also. Margot Rose is the one I love seeing every time I flip by this movie on tv, god she was sooo cute when she was younger...still cute now, older but cute. There are a few scenes missing from the DVD that you ironically may catch when its' on prime time tv, I mean they're not important, its just kind of odd that they did'nt print them on the disc. '48 HRS.' was one of the movies I used to always love watching with tremendous amounts of alcohol (I DO NOT RECOMMEND THAT FOR ANYONE, NOBODY BLAME ME IF YOUR KID STARTS DRINKING), my point being its a classic American movie that wont ever grow old, Eddie Murphy's 10 minuet scene in Walter Hill's fictional 'Torchy's' bar is what made this superstar famous...think of what might've happened to Eddie Murphy if Gregory Hines HAD'NT backed out of this role......
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Summary: This is the REAL thing. Accept no imitations.
Review: In order to appreciate this film fully, you hafta turn yourself back in time to 1982, an' try an' remember the political an' social mindset of the day. Then imagine watching '48 HRS.' an unabashed an' raucous cop thriller that breaks the very foundation of political correctness. Now how does that make you feel? If you say, sick to your stomach, then maybe you needa loosen your jock strap an' try it again. E'ybody knows the plot, the hard-drinkin', chain-smokin' San Francisco cop Jack Cates, played by Nick Nolte (who looks almost TOO comfortable in the role of a wasted, burn-out), is lookin' to put two recent prison escapees an' vicious cop killers away after he tried an' failed to apprehend them. In going over the case he comes across several members of their old gang an' decides to go talk to one'a the incarcerated ones. Here's where Eddie Murphy comes in. Reggie Hammond is the smooth an' dapper, fast-talking convict who convinces Cates to get him out of jail an' on the street to help him solve this case. Cates reluctantly does so, an' from there is' jus' the two of them together goin' from place to place, crook to crook, bar to bar, lead to lead, tryin' to keep from killing each other in the process. Cates is a rough-edged, semi-bigot with an apparent vendetta toward these crooks (though apparently jus' for stealing his gun), Reggie is the charming, jive-talking criminal, with a more obvious vendetta toward the crooks (they dropped the dime on him, got him locked up, an' are now tryin' to steal a half a million dollars of his hard-earned, er, um, hard-stolen cash). Both are on the same mission, but with two TOTALLY different personalities an' when they mix it up, oh, is' gunpowder. E'ybody talks about the scene with Murphy in the country-western bar playin' cop ("Alright listen up. I don't like white people. An' I HATE rednecks. You people're rednecks. That means I'm enjoyin' this s---.") an' although it is funny, my favorite scene comes right after they question the two ladies who were s'posedly in cahoots with the killers, when Nolte an' Murphy finally drop the trash-talkin' an' jus' have a drunken brawl in the street only to be broken up by two cops on the beat. This is the original buddy cop flick. With two guys who're ironically ANYTHING but buddies. Depending on the way you've come up watching movies, this one will either be a wonderfully offensive cop thriller, or a horribly offensive cop thriller. Of course, no matter how you look at it, '48 HRS.' will forever be a hallmark, because it was one'a the first movies of its kind: a rough-edged, blatant politically-incorrect film centering on characters that are so sleazy at times you hafta force yourself to like them, an' revolving around racial stereotypes an' sexist banter thas' thrown around like it's nothing, not to mention some brutal violence. Now it'd be much harder to overlook all the coldness if it wasn't for the charm an' appeal of Eddie Murphy, in his film debut. He is the main reason to watch the flick, although Nolte's character also provides the perfect counterbalance. Directed by Walter Hill, '48 HRS.' set a new standard for the way action flicks were to be played for the rest of the 1980s. With laughs, wit, chemistry, an' a not-so-serious attitude set against a very serious backdrop.
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Summary: Good intense thriller
Review: In the cop buddies formula popular in the 80's this film was the first and for me the best.A white laconic drinker cop(Nolte) must team with a black mouthfast thief(Murphy) which is in jail to seek a band of cop killers which have escaped killing 2 partners of Jack Cates and held 3 women hostage until the boyfriend and former member of the band tell their leader where is the money that he and Reggie Hammond took in a bank robbery that's cost $500,000 in cash. Authorities gave 48 hrs to find the money and the men so they must take every evidence they have to find the money and the fugitive inmates. A little issue I found is that the packet says that it have English captions when in reality there isn't any. I hope Paramount Studio can fix this soon. ... I see more like this one and above with a least English subtitles.
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Summary: Hilarious roller-coaster thriller!
Review: Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy team up to form an unlikely duo chaisng two vicious cop-killers. This unlikely partnership pursue separate goals: Nolte wants the villians; Murphy wants his money and some much needed female companionship. This is a movie you'll be laughing the whole time and will want to watch again and again.
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Summary: Murphy's best is his first
Review: Some of the best 1-liners ever reside in this film. Simply put, its a great comedy with a flare for drama, and in the cop buddy genre. Lots of cursing, some nudity, but ultimately, a great flick. It kicks today's cop buddy flicks in the Mother F-ing Aholes Mother F-ers!
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Summary: Murphy's best is his first
Review: Some of the best 1-liners ever reside in this film. Simply put, its a great comedy with a flare for drama, and in the cop buddy genre. Lots of cursing, some nudity, but ultimately, a great flick. It kicks today's cop buddy flicks in the Mother F-ing Aholes Mother F-ers!
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Summary: The Debut of a SuperStar!
Review: This 1982 buddy/cop classic launched Eddie Murphy's career in the movies. Nick Nolte does a fine turn as a brutal and racist cop but Murphy upstages him and steals every scene he is in. The two have great chemistry.
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