Netflix pick for 7/7/14 – ’48 Hrs.’

Not “48 Hours” and not “Forty-Eight Hours” but specifically “48 Hrs.” because in a movie like this we just don’t have TIME to spell it all out, whiz bam thank you, ma’am, here comes enough anti-buddy cop mismatched action comedy shenanigans to blow your face off.

Directed by the great Walter Hill and featuring a cop no one likes (Nick Nolte) with the motor mouthed criminal no one likes (Eddie Murphy), “48 Hrs.” is about what happens when a cop has to catch a killer and his best bet is to get this other criminal out of jail for a specified amount of time in order to track down this other guy. And really none of that stuff matter because this movie is really about how these two guys don’t like each other and how they don’t get along and yet they are stuck together and have to work together and they actually have some interesting chemistry together which then throws them both of whack because they don’t want to like each other but dammit if that doesn’t start happening anyway.

The action scenes are fine and the use of both Sonny Landham and James Remar as the bad guys is brilliant, but the soul of this movie is in the bickering between the two main characters and it is great, making this movie a classic for a reason.

So check out “48 Hrs.” right here on the Netflix Instant and enjoy this mismatched comedy action classic.