48 Hrs.

From Tysto commentaries:

Nick Nolte is a dirty, drunken jerk of a cop who needs Eddie Murphy’s help to find a couple of crazy killers loose in San Francisco, and they’ve only got 48 hours as much time as Nick Nolte feels like! I discuss the role of film as a bridge between 1970s cop movies and 1980s cop movies, place it in context with similar films, and examine the unusual structure. I explore how it fits into director Walter Hill’s career as well as Nolte’s and Murphy’s. I pick apart the police procedural aspects, the weak romantic subplots, and the racial themes.

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This movie has … a lot of the feel of a ’70s gritty cop drama. We see a lot of prostitutes… We see a lot of bars… This movie could have been called 48 Bars. — Tysto Commentaries,
48 Hrs. @0:13:33

Now, I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of a honky tonk country and western bar in the Mission district of San Francisco in 1982, but this bar does not seem all that realistic to me. — Tysto Commentaries,
48 Hrs. @0:38:26

‘There’s a new sheriff in town,’ he says. … You can’t define things any clearer than that. Not only is the movie changing, but Eddie Murphy just changed action movies … from gritty cop dramas to … buddy cop comedies. — Tysto Commentaries,
48 Hrs. @0:45:24

Jack’s a hard drinker, like all good ‘bad cops’. — Tysto Commentaries,
48 Hrs. @1:09:04

Again, Kehoe is just sitting at his desk taking phone calls while a cop killer is out on the street, loose, stealing buses. Get to work, Kehoe! — Tysto Commentaries,
48 Hrs. @1:21:39

This is a weird kind of Chinatown where we don’t see any Chinese people. — Tysto Commentaries,
48 Hrs. @1:28:03

[credits] ‘“Roxanne” by S Sting.’ What does the S stand for? His real name is ‘Gordon Sumner’. What does the S stand for? … Is his first name also ‘Sting’? — Tysto Commentaries,
48 Hrs. @1:36:17