before another 48 hour be release and thing be already in an uproar . nick nolte and others involve with the movie and vow never to work with eddie murphy again . there be constant spat on the set with the big complaint that murphy would arrive three hour late for film while everyone would have to set around and wait for him to show up . if the above be true and murphy be not the one to blame for the movie failure . another 48 hour offer no surprise and originality and a plot that have be recycle over and over again . co write by the director of the first installment and walter hill and ( who have year to come up with something good ) give the fan of the original a huge letdown . the opening scene have three bikers cruise all over the country blow innocent people away and apparently they work for a major drug dealer know a iceman that jack cates ( nick nolte ) have be try to track down for year . the iceman want reggie hammond ( eddie murphy ) dead for reason that go unexplained throughout most of the movie . cates job go on the line when he kill a suspect who gun can not be find after the shooting . the suspect be burn to a crisp in a gasoline fire but the one important clue be unbelievably spar . so cate call on murphy to assist in save the day and while the chemistry between the two be so good in the original 48 hour and something be now wrong . nolte and murphy do not seem to be enjoy themselves . they be not have fun . and either be i. the routine plot become more routine a the writer seem to know that the movie be not funny and try their best to distract the audience with endless car chase and shootout and and the like . one unintentional laugh i get be watch a bus roll over a dozen time at 50 mile an hour with murphy in it but later see him walk away without a scratch . and the so called surprise when the identity of the iceman be reveal be about as believable a frosty the snowman . ( perhaps the iceman would be a good bad guy in spider man 3 ) . eddie and come back to u . we miss you .