48 Hrs. (1982)

Remember when Eddie Murphy was a good actor? Nope. Me neither. That is because I wasn't alive when this came out and just a toddler when the rest of his good movies came out [Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop, Coming to America]. If you can't stand Murphy you can thank this film for launching his career.

Murphy isn't the main character though, that is Nick Nolte. Nolte plays a cop, one that can handle having a partner, fails to call in back up, and chain smokes throughout the film. After an incident where his gun is stole by some escape convicts and several police officers are murdered he goes after the bad guys... by himself. When he finds out that the guy sprung from prison is after the money that a different convict helped steal he gets him out of jail for 48 hours to help him find the bad guys. Eddie Murphy plays the convict just 18 month away from release who has the loot stashed in his car. The two are an odd couple and are fun to watch. The scene in the cowboy bar is really pretty funny.

The film annoyed me because if they just would have asked the department to help them on several occasions this whole film would have been unnecessary. It was just ok, but really not bad for the Action 101 book.

Vote: 6/10

IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083511/
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