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Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte return eight years after the success of 48 Hrs. for a sequel too afraid to stray from formula. Nolte’s cop character once again gets Murphy’s convict character out of prison to help him identify a new criminal and the two fight and bicker along the way. Another 48 Hrs. is competently directed (again) by Walter Hill with a handful of nice action sequences, and the two stars certainly have their moments together, but there is nothing new here that we haven’t seen or heard before. They get into a bar fight again. They go to Chinatown again. They have a hotel shootout again. They go to a strip club again… It feels like a remake more than a sequel. There’s a slight mystery involving the identity of a dirty cop, but it’s not much to hang your hat on. This is a sequel that’s really only for people who loved the original 1982 film so much, they wouldn’t mind seeing an ever-so-slightly different version of it.
With Brion James, Kevin Tighe, Ed O’Ross, David Anthony Marshall, and Andrew Divoff.