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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
Together Cates and Hammond take a thrill-a-minute trip through the San Francisco underworld and along the way develop one of the 1980s' more interesting cinematic buddy pairings. Read full review
What makes the movie special is how it's made. Nolte and Murphy are good, and their dialogue is good, too - quirky and funny. Read full review
That the fact they come to appreciate one other, the grudging respect of a million clichs, feels so satisfyingly, shows just how successful the film is. Read full review
Walter Hill, the director of such beautiful but stilted tough guy movies as ''The Warriors'' and ''The Long Riders,'' has attempted something very different in 48 Hours a male-buddy action film that's positively witty and warm-hearted compared with his other work. Read full review
A quick and clever thriller as nasty as a piece of shrapnel snapping the sound barrier, 48 Hrs. is as violent as it is funny. It is very funny. [03 Dec 1982] Read full review
48Hrs. is a very efficient action entertainment which serves as a showy motion picture debut for Eddie Murphy. Read full review
The film is still an entertaining and invigorating thriller, with a structure and some curious sexual overtones that suggest Howard Hawks's "A Girl in Every Port." Read full review
Neither jokes nor fast, flashy action can completely distract audiences from the failure to establish an authentic, rather than a purely conventional connection between Nolte and Murphy. Read full review