48 HRS.

48 HRS.
by Walter Hill

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Actor: Annette O'Toole, Eddie Murphy, Frank McRae, James Remar, Nick Nolte
Director: Walter Hill
Brand: MURPHY,EDDIE
Writer: Walter Hill
Producer: D. Constantine Conte
Producer: Joel Silver
Producer: Lawrence Gordon
Writer: Larry Gross
Writer: Roger Spottiswoode
Writer: Steven E. de Souza
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-01-26
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount

DVD Reviews of 48 HRS.

DVD Review: A perfect mix of action and comedy
Summary: 3 Stars

Whether this is the original buddy cop movie which launched a whole genre or not it's certainly one of the best. Ganz (James Remar), an escaped convict, goes on a violent search for money that him and a couple of partners stole and hid three years ago. Only a few people know where the money is hidden and one of them is Luther (David Patrick Kelly). Ganz meets up with him and Luther tells him that he can't access the money for a couple of days so Ganz takes his girl as collateral. He plans on hiding out at a hotel but the cops trace a stolen credit card that Ganz used to pay for the room and show up at the hotel. A gunfight erupts and of the three cops on the scene the only man to survive is Jack Cates (Nick Nolte). Cates wants Ganz even more now that he is a cop killer and he starts his own investigation hoping to anticipate Ganz's next move. He learns of the hidden cash and realizes what Ganz is after. The only other person left alive who was in on the job is a fast talker named Reggie Hammond (Eddie Murphy). He's in prison serving out his last couple of months on a three year sentence. Thinking that he can lead him to the money before Ganz gets it Cates springs Reggie from jail on a 48 hour pass. Cates is all business but Reggie wants to enjoy being a free man and get a little action. The two hate each other immediately and they spar both verbally and physically. They make a great team and are a lot of fun to watch. There is a lot of humor in watching Nolte as the raspy voiced and hung over cop trying to control a live wire like Murphy (making his film debut). Director Walter Hill would practically remake this movie in the 80's as Red Heat but this is the version that works. The film is raw and gritty with plenty of violence, nudity, and language. There are even a few nasty racial slurs between the two men. Remar is terrifying as Ganz and it is nice to see him and "Warriors" co star Patrick Kelly in a complete role reversal from their characters in that Hill classic. This is one of Hill's best films as it shows his considerable gifts at directing exciting action scenes and coming up with great one liners for our heroes to deliver between gunfights and explosions.

DVD Review: never to be forgotton
Summary: 4 Stars

This movie may look slightly dated now, but Eddie Murphy's film debut in this flick still remains one of his best. I still find parts of this movie simply brilliant, and Nick Nolte's performance is equally as good, as cop Jack Cates and convict Reggie Hammond constantly spar verbally and physically, but with the same goals in mind. The performances and strength of the characters really bring out both the drama and comedy in this film, which balance superbly.

I won't bother going into the story as many other reviewers have done this, but this movie is simply hilarious in places and is a must see for anyone who likes an adult-comedy movie. For the record, the sequel is equally as good.

DVD Review: disjointed
Summary: 3 Stars

Nick Nolte is Jack Cates, a worn-out cop who gets Reggie Hammond (Eddie Murphy) out of prison for 48 hours to try to catch Reggie's old partner.

It's the classic misfit partners action/adventure story with a good dose of humor thrown in (it is Eddie Murphy, after all).

And actually, both actors do really well, and are very convincing in the roles. I completely buy Nolte's character as a cop who's seen it all and isn't very happy about it. And Murphy is classic Eddie Murphy--the Eddie Murphy from SNL, not the sanitized Eddie Murphy who makes children's movies. You know, the one whose standup routine broke records for the most frequent use of the word "f***."

It's just that they seemed to be in two different movies--Nick Nolte in a serious action/adventure, and Eddie Murphy in a comedy. There wasn't any chemistry between them. And that might be just me, because I just read a bunch of reviews on the IMDB that said otherwise. I know I liked it enough back in 1982 to buy the video.

DVD Review: Bare Bones DVD but still a classic movie
Summary: 4 Stars

48 HRS. is a good combo of action and comedy. Edddie handles all the funny stuff very and Nick plays a good cop. The action sequences by the stylish Walter Hill were some of the best in 1982. The film is full of action and comedy and is a real crowd pleaser. I remember reading somewhere that the role of Reggie Hammond was oringally written for Gregory Hines or Richard Pryor and one wonders the tone the film would have taken if either played the role but thankfully the chose who Murphy who carried the film very will and became a star in the making.

DVD Review: It is different on TV
Summary: 3 Stars

I had seen this on TV so many times that I had forgotten how much they use the "F" word. It's too bad...they have a great story line and Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy are very funny together...if you can get past the language.

Description of 48 HRS.

Nolte stars as a cop who teams up with a convicted robber to catch two vicious murderers.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 28-MAR-2006
Media Type: DVD

Before the action-oriented "buddy movie" formula settled into place in the 1980s and 1990s with the Lethal Weapon films, Walter Hill's 48 HRS. presented a much more irreverent and politically incorrect version of the genre. Eddie Murphy made an auspicious film debut alongside veteran Nick Nolte's consummate performance as a worn cop. Murphy plays a convict on a two-day furlough from prison to help capture his former partner (James Remar). The intense animosity between his character and Nolte's impatient detective is rude and violent--albeit in a comic way--and the film's racist and sexist banter is so ubiquitous that some viewers might be turned off. (This early, raw Murphy is not the Murphy of The Nutty Professor.) Then again, sometimes deliberate overkill is funny in itself, which is certainly closer to Hill's intention. There are a couple of scenes for the ages in this film, especially Murphy's single-handed shutdown of the action in a redneck bar. --Tom Keogh

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