Powerful

Great Film overall

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

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

The violence even more excessive, the plot even thinner, and the laughs even fewer, as cop Nolte is again forced to turn to con Murphy, just being released from eight years in prison, to crack another case, keep his own ass out of prison, and try to save his career.All of the dialogue is exposition, spelling out to the audience what little is going on, and some of it is even taken verbatim from the earlier film, as the filmmakers apparently play the first film's soundtrack album, and while glass shatters seemingly endlessly. When this is not recycling its predecessor's soundtrack album, there is a curious choice of country music heard in the background.I couldn't even recommend this to the biggest fans of either Murphy and/ or Nolte, nor can I think of a redeeming quality or value to this exact duplicate of the original. The only reason I give it a 2/ 10 is because I slightly chuckled at the several jokes about "hillbillies", and several background extras (the singer in the bar, and the guy standing on the courthouse steps) who stare at the camera. Or, were these scenes guerrilla filmed, and those people didn't know they were on camera?Even more than the original, the thin plot collapses if given even the slightest bit of thought.

Seven years on, a wearied Nolte, hair cropped and the lively sidekick, Murphy re team in this bigger action spectacle. While the original was more restrained, and did take a while to get to where it's going, this however surprisingly much more entertaining, as if the start is anything to go back. Apparently Nolte and Murphy, are in an avenging fire, as Gain's brother wants retribution, and we know Nolte, never losing his character, isn't gonna go down easy. Nolte enlist Murphy's help to catch this angry son of a bitch, and of course he's reluctant as first until Nolte tries blackmailing tactics on him. Murphy who is almost is free as a bird takes up with Nolte after assassination attempts are made on him. Now the angry and avenging return fire and this is where the fun of the movie lies. Even if not liking the original, which was more solid, atmospheric and hard edged, and of better quality, here's one you'll like more with racey punchy action, with an end, very much similar to the original, plus a shock turn involving one of Nolte's very own from the original, which I liked.

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.

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.