One of the worst sequels ever. Look at his filmography from this movie on and you will see the decline of one of the biggest stars of 1980s. He began 1990 with this junk and continued to put out junk from then on.
shareIt's certainly the weakest of the good Murphy films, but I think the 48 Hours flicks nicely bookends the best of Murphy, which is basically the whole 80s.
"I said no camels, that's five camels, can't you count?"
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He bounced back with "Coming to America", then "Harlem Nights" happened. "Harlem Nights" was the beginning and "Another 48 Hrs." was just a further downward spiral.
shareThis movie definitely did not stand the test of time. It's pretty damn bad.
Love isn't what you say or how you feel, it's what you do. (The Last Kiss)
I wonder if part of the issue here is that this is the moment Nolte's career began to falter, and he was in this sequel with a known scene-stealer, and he probably wanted people to notice his performance more than or at least as much as Murphy's in the second film. So the portrayal of his character was diluted and dulled, in an attempted move toward likability.share
I mean, Nolte was so good and his career so hot for so long, including award-worthy performances in things like 'North Dallas Forty' and 'Who'll Stop the Rain', and off-beat choices like 'Heartbeat' and 'Cannery Row', along with blockbusters like 'The Deep'. And after A48H he still did 'Cape Fear', for example. But the easy part of the ride was over, and he may have seen A48H as a springboard to bigger, better roles. But in the process, he sort of lost what was appealing about him. His voice went into the *beep* his movie star looks, well, he just stopped even trying, didn't he? And even today he'll pop up in unusual places and roles, but it just feels like A48H was a turning point and he knew it.
(fwiw, if you've never seen 'who'll stop the rain', it's one of my favorite movies, and one of the best 'viet nam' movies of the 70s even though it is set in California. Nolte, Michael Moriarty, Tuesday Weld, Anthony Zerbe, Ray Sharkey, so many great performances. in essence, Nolte is playing Neal Cassady although his character is a weary ex-Marine who proves the truth in the saying, 'no good deed goes unpunished.')
Nah, Boomerang is consistently entertaining and Distinguished Gentleman was an underrated throwback to '30s Frank Capra films. I'd say '92-'93 was at least a brief flare of good Eddie Murphy films before the fat suit decline (plus he was great in Steve Martin's Bowfinger).
shareMurphy did begin to decline in the early 90's. But he's a comedic actor, and usually those types of actors don't last too long anyway. Their material gets old, and people just get tired of seeing them.
But you have to give Murphy credit for realizing that his act was old news in Hollywood around this time, and he sure did reinvent himself. The first Nutty Professor was a really good movie, and Murphy further focused his attention on younger/newer audiences as Donkey.
Just as many kids and teenagers know who Eddie Murphy is from being Donkey, and his kiddie stuff, as us grown adults, who watched him from the time he was on SNL through the 80's.
Not a lot of actors can realize when it's time to make a change, or can even make that change, but he did it.