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Film · 1982 · Action comedy
48 Hrs
Directed by Walter Hill
1982
★ 4.0 editorial score
Eddie Murphy's first film role and he takes the whole thing over: Walter Hill built the interracial buddy-cop formula here, and the bar scene made a twenty-one-year-old a movie star overnight.
“Because 48 Hours was directed by economical genre specialist Hill, it moves relentlessly, with scarcely a wasted scene or shot in its 96 minutes. And because it’s an early example of the buddy-cop movie, it features multiple scenes and elements that later became cliché, as when Nolte’s shouty African-American boss tells him he needs to be “more of a team player and less of a hot dog.””
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