PodBill Just what I expected

GazerRise Fantastic!

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

rambofanlife-41678 48 Hrs. (1982) is the buddy cop flick that started all the buddy cop flicks and it is an action classic. It is one of my favorite buddy cop flicks in my opinion Showdown In Little Tokyo (1991) will be number 1 buddy cop flick this will be number 2. This is Eddie Murphy's first and best movie he ever made and my favorite Murphy film. I used to had this movie on blank VHS tape and I had two copy's. Than I had this movie on DVD but I throw it away and I bought a Blu-ray disc in stead in it is a better picture quality and I am still watching this film every year. This is the best movie of the two movies that come out.Directed was by Walter Hill and the script was written by Roger Spottiswoode, Walter Hill, Larry Gross and Steven E. de Souza and produced was Joel Silver. Starring Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole, David Patrick Kelly, Sonny Landham, Brion James, Annette O'Toole, Frank McRae, Kerry Sherman and Jonathan Banks. Everyone from the cast dose wonderful great job the script and one liners dialogues from everyone are great. This is my favorite action film I love the bond between Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy. One is a cop and one is convict but first they hate each other, but then they become closer friends I love that. They were both honest people and I love that. Roger Spottiswoode, Walter Hill, Larry Gross and Steven E. de Souza wrote a fantastic script a great action film, great comedy humor. Jack Cates (Nick Nolte) is a rough tough San Francisco cop after two vicious cop-killers. He can't do it without the help of smooth and dapper Reggie (Eddie Murphy), who is serving time for a half-million dollars robbery. Cates uses his pull to get Reggie a 48-hour parole and make him his temporary partner. As the boys race the clock, they discover they have only one thing in common. They both wants the bad guys and they both have the same goal. The fight between Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy was improves and it was a stuntman hitting Nick Nolte and not Eddie Murphy. James Horner made a score for the film and it is great it is my favorite music score ever. Annette O'Toole is also in here and she is hot sexy girl. I love this film to death. The film doesn't have only simply plot that is about a chase for the money and 48 hrs. to catch the killers and clock is ticking. There is a lot of action in which the boys with the car chase the killers in the stolen bus and the showdown was great and they both hit with the car in to the store. I love the stakeout between the boys and I love everything about this film.This is my childhood movie, I watch it as a kid and it was a great film I watch it with my mom and I grow up watching this movie as a kid. Jack Cates was my favorite police officer my favorite action hero my favorite detective. Martin Riggs from Lethal Weapon was second. This movie started the buddy cop movies and not Lethal Weapon. I love the dialogues, great one lines and Eddie Murphy was funny I have enjoyed him in here. Nick Nolte is great honest straight blond cop and I love those two dynamite guys in here. 10/10 my favorite buddy cop action comedy a classic from the 80's I love this film to death. James Remar and Sonny Landham were both memorable bad guys and Sonny Landham R.I.P. I really miss you. The actor worked with Arnold Schwarzenegger in Predator and with Sylvester Stallone in Lock Up he has my respect.

OneEightNine Media 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.

videorama-759-859391 Watching it just recently again, 48 HRS, is a well formulated movie, and first rate film making done solid, with a great script and two great bolstered performances to boot, especially Murphy, in still what I believe is one of his best performances. The movie is well plotted, even though we know we are walking that predictable path, to where the next scene will take us, like a lot of eighties movies did. On a quest for revenge, for two cops dying, in front of his eyes, is hot dog cop, Jack Cates (Nolte giving us another great character performance). They were killed by escaped and very dangerous prisoner, Ganz, (a splendid James Remar) and buddy, Billy Bear (Sonny Landham) who sprung his mate out. Cates enlists help from prisoner/expert thief, Reggie Hammond (Murphy) who he takes into his custody for 48 hours. He has ties with our dangerously violent cop killers, who are after this money, Reggie has stashed away somewhere. Reggie wants to protect his money, Nolte just wants to blow our murderous duo away. Featuring quite a bit of Commando music, a lot of hostility and hate, not just from Nolte, that doesn't take s..t, a bit of violence, a little t and a from some hot broads, this is a hard edged cop film, featuring other good performances too, like David E Kelly, as the luckless loser, Luther, who in one scene, Murphy, causes a considerable amount of pain too. Overall what I love is, that 48 HRS is a cop film with a great recipe of comedy and drama, entwined, Murphy, who we have to thank a lot of this. Murphy is given a lot of great lines to work with: a lot of snappy cutting remarks. Both two leads are at the top of their game in one of the best partnerships in film I've seen. The bare knuckle fight between the two is hilarious. I really loved the character Nolte created, though, his attitudes towards some women here, was kind of off putting. A tight shot I loved was a CU of Nolte's car approaching a steep San Francisco street decline, among some other captured ones in the film. Nolte's moment of vengeance was fantastic few words, while also I liked him, defending Murphy, in front of his colleagues. This was one of the strongest moments in the film, while also being another great acting moment of Nolte's. This is a well shaped, compacted actioner, and another reminder of those unforgotten and well made '83 flicks. I mean films.

brchthethird This is an all-thrills, no frills buddy action comedy with excellent performances by Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy. One of the beauties (and source of some faults) of this movie is its simplicity. The plot is rather straightforward and doesn't stop too long or too often for exposition, which is good. However, a lot of the characters are underwritten, most notably the villain who gets a worthy introduction but isn't seen too much until the inevitable climax. Nick Nolte's girlfriend is also underwritten and seems to serve little purpose other than to give him something else to bitch about. However, Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy's characters are very well-defined and developed, and their chemistry is what makes the movie so special. Eddie Murphy really hit it out of the park with this film, his feature debut. There's a lot of great action and comedic scenes, but my favorite has to be when Eddie Murphy takes on a bar full of rednecks. What transpires is truly hilarious, and an excellent character-building moment. Also, since the movie moves along so quickly, you never get bored watching what happens on screen. My last complaint would be that the film is resolved maybe a little too quickly, but it still was a satisfying ending, nonetheless. I should also mention that this movie has a killer soundtrack, with one particularly good song by The Busboys, (The Boys Are) Back In Town, which is a rollicking good blues rock tune. All-in-all, this is a must-see 1980's action-comedy made by movie veterans at the top of their game (just check out the writers on this thing).