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Another 48 Hours

1990

Walter Hill

Eddie Murphy, Nick Nolte, Brion James, Kevin Tighe ...

5.1

6,473

Action. Comedy Jack Cates once again enlists the aid of ex-con Reggie Hammond--this time, to take down The Iceman, a ruthless drug lord operating in the San Francisco bay area.

	Author	Review
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"It's a minor pleasure to see Murphy slightly subdued. What seems more problematic is the virtual exaltation of Dirty Harry vigilantism"	NEU
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"Purposeless waste of director Walter Hill's energies (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"The movie is all explosions and gunplay and very little wit (...) There are just as many unfocused, flaccidly directed scenes as there are brilliant ones"	NEU
United Kingdom	Almar Haflidason BBC	"The '48 Hours' movies are hardly amazing films (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"What holds the movie together to some extent is the simple star presence of Murphy and Nolte, who are not given great dialogue or much of a plot, but who have a certain magnetism that's interesting to watch (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"The movie just drifts (though rapidly) from one lethal confrontation to another (though without suspense)."	NEG
United Kingdom	John Ferguson Radio Times	"... and another largely pointless reprise from the Hollywood mill (...) The action is spectacular enough, though (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Peter Rainer Los Angeles Times	"Occasionally, there are grace notes (...) But these graces notes are all but lost in the din"	NEG

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