terrible... so disappointed.

Absolutely Fantastic

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

When the two "48 Hours" movies were made, there were a few people who had mobile communications. But not like it is now. If I had a dog, he or she would mope around until the dog had their own cellular, or internet. Hammond was in a phone booth, trying to borrow money. Now, telephone booths are rare. Yet, with cellular still in the future, Reggie Hammond had bought himself a Porsche he bought with money he made in crime. His Porsche had a special key with a computer chip, a common sight now when people are tweeting their cars. Hammond tweeted his Porsche into a thousand pieces. Don't you love cinema pyrotechnics? Cates was not very impressed or sympathetic. "You're just having a bad day, Reggie". After Hammond had already lost his James Brown tape.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 wreck. 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 so-called 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. The action is awesome, the acting and the music are superb. Two thumbs up to Walter Hill and the rest of the cast & crew! Overall rating: 7 out of 10.

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.

"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.