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  Review by Ethan Colburn ★★★½ 5

  Eddie Murphy taking charge in the confederate bar is an all-time heat check.

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  Review by Ayo Edebiri ★★ 2

  watched 2 nick nolte movies today to start of the new year because randomly I love nick nolte
  the man has the range--aka a very good actor who can be either incredibly charming or alarmingly repulsive
  holy jesus
  he's crazy in this movie!!!!
  I want to see a sequel to this (not another 48 hours, a completely separate movie in the franchise a là hobbes and shaw) where the D.A. SHOOTS HIMSELF IN THE HEAD because Nick Nolte is such a BAD cop
  maybe the movie can be called Hobbes and Shaw Presents: 48 Hours. The D.A. is obviously named Harold Hobbes and his plucky secretary is Danny Shaw (but she's a woman named Danny--fun!)

  note: I logged like 5 movies in one night aka none of these will get likes but i'm not in this for the likes i'm in this for the love of the game

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★½ 1

  A constant, raucous, irresistible vibe in a movie in which there is not much action, materially very little actually transpires, and the villain barely appears.

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  Review by Todd Gaines ★★★★ 19

  The cop and the convict, that's the relationship explored in Walter Hill's 48 Hrs.

  Nick Nolte mumbles. Eddie Murphy laughs with hysteria. They make one the most enjoyable "buddy cop" pairs in cinematic history. Nolte might use some colorful language, but he's only playing the part of the tough cop. I believe his character has a good heart, and I adore how Nolte & Murphy's relationship develops throughout the film. In the end, you can't help but smile.

  James Remar and Sonny Landham are so good at being bad. I wanted more scenes with the baddies. As much as I praise Mr Landham for his role as Billy Sole in Predator, I believe his turn as Billy Bear is the highlight…

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  Review by Will Sloan ★★★½ 1

  Eddie Murphy in the redneck bar... a star is born.

  This movie twice plays a song called "The Boys Are Back in Town" that is not the Thin Lizzy song.

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  Review by theriverjordan ★★★ 34

  The original 80s buddy cop film; Walter Hill’s “48 Hrs” started the genre off with equal portions of comedy and rage. 

  Before Eddie Murphy landed in a mire of derivative projects that appropriated his blackness for humor more than for social commentary — there was “48 Hrs.” 

  Director Walter Hill doesn’t go for the cheap race gag that instead turns racist. Murphy commands the film by wielding words - and the occasional action - like a hammer against all small-minded bigots. It’s not a question of whether he will get one over on all the guys. He has always been flying in the air — ten feet above their heads. 

  “48 Hrs” casts Murphy as a convict on loan to…

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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★½ 12

  Action! - The Unlikely Rumble: Hill v Hyams

  So, like I said at the beginning, prepare for some offsets in this fight. Although Hill still has the lead, Hyams is no longer playing games and is gaining ground.

  And, while I understand why many people enjoy it and see it as a genre classic, there's something about it that prevents me from connecting in the same way that others do. The now-famous bar scene is enjoyable, but I'm not sure what all the fuss is about.

  Having said that, I liked it more this time, especially the interplay between our two protagonists and the action. Walter Hill has definitely learnt a thing or two from his early work, and much…

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★

  Walter Hill once again teams up with uber-producers Joel Silver and Lawrence Gordon for one of the biggest commercial hits of his career and inadvertently invents what we now know as the decade plus box office dominating genre of macho 80s "buddy cop" film. Originally conceived as a 70s-style San Francisco neo-noir for Eastwood (with a possible pairing of he and Richard Pryor), this eventually landed in the hands Nick Nolte as the rough blond-haired Dirty Harry style cop Jack Cates and then 20-year-old SNL star Eddie Murphy who makes his astonishingly charismatic big screen debut as the smart-ass, fast-talking, sexually frustrated career criminal Reggie Hammond who Cates paroles and partners up with for a "long fucking night" of driving…

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  Review by Cinemonster ★★★★ 13

  Director Walter Hill is primarily know for three things: 1) action 2) an active camera and 3) testosterone. No film of his plays up all three and balances them quite like 48hrs. Add to that the comic powerhouse that is Eddie Murphy's film debut with an equal foil that is Nick Nolte's lone wolf cop and you get a high-octane and energetic neo-buddy-cop film that delivers from the amazing Hill-centric cast to James Horner's fantastic score.

  The Roger Spottiswoode/Walter Hill story of a cop that has 48 hours to use a convict to solve a prison escape hits the ground running.
  Hill's film starts it's action thrust from minute one. Scenes are kinetic, the narrative moves and we get just…

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  Review by braden ★★

  “I want y’all to know something - there’s a new sheriff in town, and his name is Reggie Hammond”

  48 Hrs. is a lifeless comedy-action cop movie that fails to deliver in either category. Eddie Murphy is the sole highlight of the film, but isn’t introduced until nearly half an hour into the 90 minute runtime and is given minimal opportunity to use his comedic talents. The racism is also really uncomfortable at points, even in the movie’s context. Nick Nolte’s character; a white cop, uses the n-word and other slurs repeatedly, and although the character is supposed to be racist he never really learns or develops enough that it feels resolved, leaving the lead role feeling super unlikable and, regardless of the filmmakers’ intention, just feels kind of hateful. Compared to similar movies it isn’t especially boring, but it’s directed fairly poorly and leaves a lot to be desired.

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  Review by C4rlo5 ★★★

  “Class isn’t something you buy.”

  Average cops movie.

  Nick Nolte together with Eddie Murphy, they transmitted to me the same feelings than Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys.

  “Lack of pussy makes you brave man.”

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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★ 8

  So I've heard so much about this movie and apparently I've been mistaking this movie with another Eddie Murphy (where the film kicks off with him playing bad ass, trying to stop a bank robbery or something).

  In the grand scheme of buddy cop films, this one was alright. Maybe because I grew up watching family-friendly Murphy, this early R rated movies tend to be very hit and miss for me. That's not to say he wasn't incredible, cause the man was brilliant back then like the Confederate Bar sequence, but he felt a bit restrained in here. Nolte was very good, though he also is capable of doing much better. The action was very uneven, though there are some…