SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Boring

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

While watching Walter Hill's "48 Hrs." I was reminded of watching Richard Donner's "Lethal Weapon" (1987) even though the two stories are pretty similar but mostly different. Nick Nolte stars as Jack Cates a hard nosed, tough guy cop that just survived a hotel shooting that killed two cops and has no help in assisting him to go after the criminals that were responsible, but the help that Cates gets is from an unlikely source. After the shooting Cates goes to the local jail to get help from a convict named Reggie Hammond (Eddie Murphy, in his debut role) to arrest the three men in only 2 days. The movie is one of the best police movies that I've seen in a long time, with an intelligent screenplay, with frequently hilarious dialogue and excellent performances from both Nolte and Murphy. Nolte's performance is comparable with Danny Glover in "Lethal Weapon", Steve McQueen in "Bullitt", Gene Hackman in "The French Connection", and Clint Eastwood in the "Dirty Harry" series. While Murphy's performance reminded me of Mel Gibson in "Lethal Weapon" despite the fact that in the movie that Gibson played a drug addicted and suicidal cop. Hill's direction and his screenplay that he wrote with Roger Spottiswoode, Larry Gross, and Steven De Souza is really effective in letting us to get to know the characters and also tells the story in an efficient way. While especially the scenes between Cates and his wife (Annette O'Toole) are very emotionally effective and authentic. In conclusion because of all those reasons this is one of 1982's very best films.

Eddie Murphy during his prime. Nick Nolte before alcohol took its course with him. The film is about a no nonsense officer who teams up with a career criminal for 48 hours in order to catch a cop killer using that said officer's own gun. This film is basically the Odd Couple with guns and excellently choreographed gunplay action. No really, the action is great. And the film is funny without trying to be funny, which is a mistake made by the sequel which I'm going to watch and review next. I don't know much about Eddie Murphy's career but I'm sure this was the film that helped him become a household name. This movie as it all. Action, comedy, great story and character development.

It is a true classic, highlighting the true natural talent of Eddie Murphy. He and Nick Nolte play off each other well, and Nolte isn't too bad himself in the comedy department. Though his type of humor is much more subtle. He does get his digs in, on Mr. Murphy's expense, mind you. To the best of my knowledge, this was one of the first movies that combined excellent humor scenes with extreme violence and emotion. And while many tried to duplicate it, in later years, including other Eddie Murphy vehicles, such as "Beverly Hills Cop", nothing can compare to the original! However, the overall effort is marred by the thin plot and moments of such stupidity as to be jaw-dropping, rather than laugh inducing, especially concerning firearms and Nick Nolte's character, Jack Cates. What police officer of any training even if buzzed on whiskey complies with the order of a prime suspect in the murder of other law enforcement personnel to cede possession of his service weapon on the expectation of mercy? What police brass would not immediately remove this man from the force for negligent homicide of a fellow officer? Let alone give him another gun and put him back on the streets? Cates is one of the most inept hero characters I've seen on a screen. The crooks aren't that much smarter, though, since Cates manages to get them in the end with the help of his antagonistic convict partner, Reggie Hammond (Murphy), who's stupid enough to trust Cates with his loot. There are numerous exciting and hilarious moments, but none rival the bit where Murphy causes a stir in a redneck bar. More often than not famous movie scenes fail to live up to their lofty reputation, but in this case that simply isn't so. It really is an electrifying screen moment in a film that really is an electrifying screen experience.Overall rating: 9 out of 10.

48 Hrs. (1982) is an action classic the only original best buddy cop flick from the 80's. Is an action cop flick that I love to death and it was honestly the first action film I saw as a kid. I grew up watching this film and in my opinion is still my favorite action buddy flick. This is first time we see Eddie Murphy in action before he went in making Beverly Hills Cop (1984), beside Beverly Hills Cop this is one if his best movies of the 80's. It is actually my favorite Walter Hill film. Like I said I grew up watching this film, I loved 48 Hrs. so much that I hardly convinced my mom to watch this movie with me and the sequel of this film. I read on Charles Bronson's Murphy's Law (1986) flick that the storyline of that film the pairing a cop with a convict was popular in Hollywood during the 1980s after the success of this film 48 Hrs. (1982). Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy are sensational in this film, the action is great and the plot about this film is well paced it goes fast and it is entertaining. I really enjoy watching this movie and honestly I love it more, than I would love the sequel, the sequel can't even hold a candle to this film."Yeah. Well, I'm real impressed with you too, man. It takes a real-skilled cop to kick in the bedroom door of a couple of dykes!"Plot: A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.The film is actually about a $500,000 stashed cash and two cop killers who are running around and killing cop,s while they want to get the hands of this cash. A tough cop who is a survivor in a shoot out in the hotel from those two killers, pairs with a convict from prison to help him to get and catch those two killers. They only have 48 Hrs. before the cop has to bring the convict back. They don't make films like this anymore, I really love action films from the 80's and this one was the first one I have saw as a kid. My favorite part in the film is the stake out scene: Jack (Nick Nolte) and Reggie (Eddie Murphy) head out to the parking garage, and they park across the street from the parking garage, waiting till the parking garage opens which it does around 7.00 am in the mornings and they spend the night there. Next morning Jack (Nick Nolte) brings a café drink to Reggie (Eddie Murphy) and wakes him up. The similar thing happened to me when I was 12 years old. My mom drove me and my dad with the car in the city 4.00 am in the mornings it was night than and my dad went with his bike delivering news paper, me with my mom waited on him in the car till his shift ends. During the waiting I fall a sleep, when I woke it was past 7.00 am and my mom brought me food from the store in the car. That moment I remember this scene in this film. It is a beautiful child memories of mine on my mom and 48 Hrs. (1982) is my childhood movie and it is memories on my childhood. 48 Hrs. and Beverly Hills Cop 1 & 2 are my favorite Eddie Murphy films from my childhood that I love to death.This is Nick Nolte's best action flick that I love to death and only one that is worth to watch. I love Music theme by James Horner that I love so much including the opening scene that was awesome. Honestly James Horner made the same music theme for Commando (1985) Arnold Schwarzenegger's movie. I love the shout outs, the action scenes, the dialogues and I also love the main lead roles from Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy, Jack Cates and Reggie Hammond are my favorite characters. This is the only original action film, but I think it was unnecessary making a sequel (Another 48 Hrs.) that I honestly think Nick Nolte made a lousy awful job reprising his role and Eddie Murphy was even worst by shouting and punching Nick Nolte. Before I finish my review you have a few cast that are memorable here: You have: James Remar from Dexter playing the main villain, David Patrick Kelly from Commando and The Warriors, Sonny Landham from Predator, Annette O'Toole from Smallville, Jonathan Banks from Beverly Hills Cop and Olivia Brown from Miami Vice. I have this film on Blu-ray I used to own the DVD but I switch it for Blu-ray.48 Hrs. is a 1982 American action comedy film directed by Walter Hill, starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy (in his film debut and Golden Globe Award-nominated role) as a cop and convict, respectively, who team up to catch a cop-killer. The title refers to the amount of time they have to solve the crime.Overall: Is my favorite action flick from my childhood and I love it to death. This flick get's a solid 10 by me and it deserves it.