Another 48 Hrs.

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January 1st, 1990

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Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Subgenres:

Anthology, Crime

Plot Synopsis:

Well,the boys are indeed back in town.Six years have gone by since we last saw Detective Jack Cates,and Convict(as Jack refers to him)Reggie Hammond.They are reunited reluctantly to pursue some...

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Directed: Walter Hill Written: John Fasano, Jeb Stuart, Larry Gross
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Nick Nolte, Brion James, Kevin Tighe, Ed O'Ross

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[+] Washington Post

60

The movie isn't a disaster, and if you responded to the first one, its memory may carry you over the roughness, the excessive, ugly violence and lack of conviction here. Hill and his stars are merely going through the motions, but the motions are immensely familiar. If you've been there before, then you've been there.
by Hal Hinson | Read Full Review »
[+] Chicago Sun-Times

50

If it does nothing else, Another 48 HRS reminds us that Murphy is a big, genuine talent. Now it's time for him to make a good movie.
by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
[+] USA Today

50

Another 48 HRS. doesn't offer a whole lot beyond Eddie Murphy, Nick Nolte, and Walter Hill's action-scene flair, but are you telling me the first 48 HRS. did? Bottom line: Eddie-Nick enthusiasts and Paramount accountants won't cry 96 tears. [8 Jun 1990, p.1D]
by Mike Clark | Read Full Review »
[+] TV Guide

50

It's only too bad nobody lectured the producers about creative cowardice. If someone had, Another 48 Hrs. might have been another good movie instead of just another damned sequel.
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[+] Empire

40

Purposeless waste of director Walter Hill's energies.
by Ian Nathan | Read Full Review »
[+] Chicago Tribune

38

This is a generic action picture. What also is missing are scenes in which Nolte and Murphy could relate to each other quietly and with some wit. [8 Jun 1990, p.C]
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[+] Christian Science Monitor

38

The story is mostly a rehash of the original "48 Hrs.," with the same hard-boiled mixture of violence and wisecracks. Directed by Walter Hill, who specializes in this kind of thing and gives it a certain conviction, if little else. [13 Jul 1990, p.10]
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[+] The New York Times

30

Though the body count is high, all of the people killed are faceless or only minor characters, until the end. It's as if the movie were saying that lethal violence is acceptable (and fun) as long as the victims - like the victims of guided missiles and high-altitude bombing - remain anonymous. Any comedy that allows the mind to ponder high-altitude bombing is in deep trouble.
by Vincent Canby | Read Full Review »
[+] Boston Globe

25

Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte are back in Another 48 HRS., and so is some of the chemistry between them. But although this sequel is more amped up than the original "48 HRS.," most of the thrills are gone. [8 Jun 1990, p.35]
by Jay Carr | Read Full Review »
[+] Los Angeles Times

20

Walter Hill, who also directed the first film, surely recognizes the hollowness of what he's doing here. He tries to ram through the muddled exposition as quickly as possible; essentially, the film is wall-to-wall mayhem, with more shots of hurled bodies shattering windows than I've ever seen in a movie. [8 Jun 1990, p.1]
by Peter Rainer | Read Full Review »
[+] Time

10

Judged purely by what director Walter Hill has put on the screen, Another 48 Hrs. is a movie mainly about the several pretty ways that glass shatters when bullets or bodies are propelled through it. [25 June 1990, p.77]
by Richard Schickel | Read Full Review »
[+] Chicago Reader

10

What seems more problematic is the virtual exaltation of Dirty Harry vigilantism, the storm trooper mentality and behavior on Nolte's part that the film breezily takes for granted; if there's any irony about it, it's carefully designed to wash over the storm trooper types in the audience and not give offense to them--only to the rest of us.
by Jonathan Rosenbaum | Read Full Review »
[+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

0

The first 48 HRS. was similiarly nasty and violent, and it too was emptier than the inside of an efficient bell jar, but it was funny. Eight years later, director Walter Hill can find nothing to laugh about - the violence in this appalling picture is played out in a mirthlessly misanthropic vacuum. [8 Jun 1990, p.C1]
by Jay Scott | Read Full Review »

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