48 Hrs. (1982)
Directed by Walter Hill
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
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In “The Heat,” Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy put a feminine spin on the buddy copy film, a male-dominated sub-genre made popular by movies like “48 Hours” and “Bad Boys.”
Bullock and/or McCarthy are in every scene, driving the film in the way that Nick Nolte & Eddie Murphy drove “48 Hours” or Charles Grodin & Robert DeNiro drove “Midnight Run.”
They’re as tough as any male pairing of the genre — Gibson and Glover in “Lethal Weapon,” Murphy and Nolte in “48 Hours” — but they bring a strong “girlfriends” feeling to the table.
“48 Hours” blended the kind of rapid-fire jokes, serious shootouts, and blatant disregard for “by the book” police work that’s since become a trademark of such movies.
Depending on the scene, The Hitman's Bodyguard plays like an homage to and parody of '80s bromantic mayhem, like 48 Hrs. with a shorter deadline.
Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy had chemistry in “48 Hours”.
Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L Jackson team up as a pair of bickering, sharp-shooting, hard-punching action partners in a movie that replicates, step by formulaic step, the familiar and now oddly dated template of the inter-racial buddy movies of the Eighties (think 48 Hours or Lethal Weapon).
The buddy cop thing was pioneered by Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte in 48 Hours, and then aped endlessly for 20 years.
The original Lethal Weapon back in 1987 has been given far too much credit as the movie that largely birthed the "buddy action comedy" (48 Hrs. and Running Scared are but two which preceded it), but it was definitely the most successful in that it led to three sequels even more lucrative at the box office.
A hilarious Ryan Gosling and a gruff and grumpy Russell Crowe are the oddball pair in this “48 Hours” riff, two LA detectives — actually, one’s more an “Equalizer” than PI — thrown together in the search for a supposedly dead porn star.
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Think of the 1982 "48 Hours" with Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy, directed by Walter Hill.
But it’s Day’s manic, ratty work as Dale that pushes the film the furthest in terms of flat-out comedy; while it’s not on the level of, say, Eddie Murphy in 48 Hours or Bronson Pynchot in Beverly Hills Cop , this more than anything is the film that will make Day a star.
Their sparring lacks the hostile, charged intimacy that Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte had in 48 HRS.
Hill, who made a great fight film in the �70s called Hard Times (he also did 48 HRS. and The Warriors), seems content to hang on the fight and nothing but the fight.
Although Murphy stops having this conversation long around The Golden Child, Hill, with the seldom-seen likes of his Undisputed and Johnny Handsome, never does.