Another 48 Hrs. (1990)

The boys are back in town. But do they need to be? Directed by Walter Hill.

The movie is entertaining, but never really answers an important question? Why a sequel, 8 years later? It may very well have just been money, but the film itself never really seems like it has much of a purpose in existing. Reggie starts out still in prison, although now the brother of James Remar's character from the first film is trying to kill him. But it's all because of a super mysterious drug lord that only Nick Nolte seems to believe in wants him dead because Hammond could identify him. Further, the explanation for who Iceman is seems like the screenwriters were running out of time - it could have been an okay movie on its own, but they had to shoehorn in some beats that call back to the first film, and end up making this one seem unnecessary.

But that said, Nolte and Murphy are a lot of fun to watch again. It's light fluff of entertainment, especially as the buddy cop genre the original movie helped to introduce has already established a set of conventions.