Another 48 Hrs. (1990)

Fresh and Exciting

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Another 48 Hrs. is my favorite sequel of the two and I love it more than the first one, I don't care what anyone says. The boys are back in town together this is Eddie Murphy's film and his last good one in my opinion. I grew up watching 48 Hrs. and Another 48 Hrs. with my mom as kid. They were always my favorite action films in the action genre. What I don't understand is the hate and this movies gets the thumbs down. I think it is a great action sequel I love Reggie Hammond so damn much in this movie. I love the humor, action, gun fights, one liners, the music, the girls, the shoot fights this movie has everything. The bad guys, a bus flips over 17 times while two motorcycle assassins try to kill Reggie Hammond. Guns shout outs. I love, love this movie to death. Better than all Beverly Hills Cop movies in my opinion. I don't understand the release from Paramount Pictures how come we don't get the movie on Blu-ray disc. I have this movie on DVD and it is scratched up and widescreen is awful it is not trough whole TV I am glad they put the first movie on Blu-ray but this one not it is not fair. I want this movie on Blu-ray too or propel DVD release. I love the bar fight scenes, the music, the actors, I love the music from James Horner I love everything about this film. It is MILES better movie than Beverly Hills Cop III, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, Dr. Dolittle 2, Vampire in Brooklyn, The Adventures of Pluto Nash and Bowfinger that Murphy did and even worse movies Murphy did. I know that Nick Nolte was little heavier but I didn't noticed so I didn't care and I don't care. Jack Cates was still my hero and my favorite cop. Brion James was great as Ben Kehoe but I was really disappointed what they did with his character. They screwed up Brion James and I really, really miss the actor so rest in peace. This time the bond between Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy is worse than was in the first movie they were both nemesis than friends. I still love they boys I love the one liners: "Wait a minute. l don't beg!"Here they go again. Only faster and together. Reggie Hammond (Eddie Murphy) and Jack Cates (Nick Nolte) return in the smash sequel. The mob puts a price on Reggie's head. The bus transporting him from the pen flips over about 17 times. His prized Porsche is blown in to scrap metal. Creeps in a bar still haven't learened it's dumb to get Reggie mad. And the night is still young. Before these 48 hours are up. Reggie and Jack will turn San Francisco inside out to nail an elusive drug lord Iceman.Everyone from the actots dose a fantastic job Another 48 Hrs. Stars: Eddie Murphy, Nick Nolte, Brion James, Ed O'Ross, Andrew Divoff, David Anthony Marshall, Kevin Tighe, Bernie Casey, Brent Jennings and Ted Markland.I love the scene in which in the bar a prostitute steals some guys money and Reggie decide to help him out of a favor, for half of the money, he goes in to the bathroom and fights the woman off. She tried to stab him with the knife I love the scene. We never find out what happened next to that woman. To bad the movie was cut. I love Reggie's lecture in the police car to that prostitute girl Angel Lee (Page Leong). I love the bar fight with Jack who beats some guys out I love how Reggie shots some guys knee and saves Jack, I love it. I love the action, I love the music played in the bar Barnstormer's played by Curio I love the songs to death: I Just Can't Let It End and Give It All You Got.This time Richard "Cherry" Ganz comes a bored to take out Jack and Reggie for killing his brother Albert Ganz (James Remar) from the first movie. Richard "Cherry" Ganz is played by Andrew Divoff. Jack must find the Iceman before he goes to prison and clock is ticking again. Reggie is his best lead, someone put the hit on Reggie and when Jack tried to stop the guy, the assassin fired with a gun at Jack, but Jack fired back and kill the shooter in self defense. The cops can't find the gun and now he is under suspension and under investigation and he must race against the clock to find the Iceman. While Reggie comes out the prison after 7 long years all he wants is his money back, but Jack refuses to pay him, until Reggie helps him. Reggie refuse to help Jack, but he also has to races against the clock not only he needs the money, he has to repay the deb to one guy Kirkland Smith (Bernie Casey) who saved his life in prison, if he doesn't, he is dead he has no place to hide. The clock is on, fasten your seat balls for the ride of your life. 10/10 I love, love, love this flick to death, why can't we have movies like this anymore. I want movies like this back today. Eddie Murphy doesn't care about his fans anymore and his movie career is dead. In the beginning of the 80's and 90's he was a huge star. I wish he would have made another good action movie mixed with comedy that's my wish. I watch this movie with my mom as a kid and I a still watch today it still I love it to death.

"Another 48 HRS." came out in 1990, eight years after the original. Like the first one, it's a crime thriller starring Nick Nolte as Jack Crates, a tough guy/alcoholic cop in San Francisco who hunts down cop killers by enlisting the services of a convict (Eddie Murphy). The killers this time out are violent outlaw bikers, but Cates' real target is the elusive "Iceman," the drug kingpin of the area. In the eight years between the movies Murphy became a mega-success and so holds top billing in this one.The first half struck me as better than the first film, but then it devolves into almost shockingly bad in the second half. It's what-were-they-thinking bad. A good example is the scene where the two bikers drive their cycles through a movie screen during a nude sequence. Why sure! The only thing I can think of is that director Walter Hill was shooting for mythic cool-ness in the manner of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." Unfortunately, he ended up with laughable dreck. To add insult to injury, the revelation of the Iceman is lame. Would a real drug kingpin keep an exhausting full-time job? Isn't the purpose of being a drug kingpin to make loads of money so you can kick back and enjoy the high life? Moreover, the conflict-habituated relationship of the protagonists really starts to grate on the nerves by the second half.There's another scene in the first half that's a cool action scene on the surface; that is, until you think about it. It's the sequence where two bikers attempt to kill someone in a mini-bus by riding alongside the vehicle on either side while blowing holes into it. All the driver has to do is swerve to one side or the other and – voilà – both bikers are taken out. Lastly, there's just something trashy about this film. While the protagonists have admirable qualities underneath their gruff exteriors, the majority of the characters in the film seem like the dregs of society. I'll take 1984's "Beverly Hills Cop" over the two 48 HRS flicks any day. It's all-around better with more likable characters and redeemable qualities. The film runs 93 minutes and was shot in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Folsom, California, as well as Las Vegas, Nevada. GRADE: C-

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.

No action , no humor , no freshness . First movie had some originality in it . It felt fresh and Eddie Murphy was a discovery . Here ? Once again Nolte needs Murphy help . Once again they will argue and help each other . Once again there will be some action and laughs.Unfortunately not . The movie sticks to the formula that worked so well in the original , yet everything sucks . There isn't anything here that I liked in the first one – unpredictability , jokes and chemistry between two stars.The plot tries to surprise the viewer with a twist in the end , but it fails to impress anyone. The chemistry between our heroes is gone and the whole movie feels like " We have to do it to get some money" . It feels tired and uninspired. I guess it's still better than what Murphy's is making now – family friendly crap movies , but still it's a bad movie . Not a disaster like "Robocop 3" or "Batman and Robin", definitely not . Still , I give it 1/10.