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48 Hours Review

Electrifying, funny and tantalising glimpse of what America could and should have been all about as Nolte's gruff 70s cop clashes with Murphy's brash 80s convict to create one of the most tasty, refreshing and light-hearted slices of Americana ever made. Often imitated, never even remotely equalled.

Think Mean Streets meets Beverly Hills Cop meets Midnight Cowboy meets The Electric Horseman meets Miami Vice and you are starting to get the picture. It's funny, it's dark, it's dirty, it's warm, it's edgy, it's violent - it is just so plain rude and disarmingly honest you can't help but have a great time.

Action Movie, Cops and Robbers, Comedy, Buddy Film, Pop-Cultural Snapshot, Cinematic Breakthrough In Race Relations - why have one, when you can have them all? I just loved it, from the opening shots of the horses right through to the neon-drizzled climax in the alley - pure fun all the way.

The sequel is not quite as crisp, but shoehorns perfectly onto the back of this one allowing us to continue the ride with Nick and Eddie right through the 80s and into the early 90s. Bookend the two films and you pretty much have a time-capsule summary of American pop culture 1969-1994.

What more do you want? Buy on DVD, enjoy and treasure!

48 Hours Overview

Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy make one of the most unusual and entertaining teams ever in Walter Hill's rollercoaster thriller 48 Hrs. Nolte is a rough-edged cop after two vicious cop-killers. He can't do it without the help of smooth and dapper Murphy who is serving time for a half-million dollar robbery. This unlikely partnership trades laughs as often as punches as both pursue their separate goals: Nolte wants the villains; Murphy wants his money and some much-needed female companionship. Together they take this adventure to hilarious extremes!System Requirements:Running Time: 96 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/CRIMINALS UPC: 097361377841 Manufacturer No: 137784

48 Hours Specifications

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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