Oh, what 48 HRS (1982) and BEVERLY HILLS COP (1984) have wrought! This lazy, formulaic crime comedy-buddy movie pairs goofball Eugene Levy and the fearsome Samuel L. Jackson on the mean streets of Detroit, and while it wouldn't be accurate to say hilarity ensues, the chemistry between them almost transcends the film's shopworn "opposites repel" conceit. By the sort of contrivance that gives crime comedies a bad name, mild-mannered dental-supplies salesman Andy Fiddler (Levy), in Detroit for a convention, is taken for cock-of-the-walk ATF agent Derrick Vann (Jackson) by smirking arms-dealer Joey (Luke Goss), who's sitting on a very hot cache of high-powered weaponry, ...
Released:
2005
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
84 mins