Starring: J.L. Reate, Eddie Murphy, Charles Dance, Charlotte Lewis, Victor Wong (III) Directed By: Michael Ritchie Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Paramount Number of Items: 1 Picture Format: Letterbox Region Code: 1 Release Date: March 09, 1999 Running Time: 93 minutes Theatrical Release Date: December 12, 1986
Product Description: No Description Available. Genre: Feature Film-Comedy Rating: PG13 Release Date: 12-DEC-2003 Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com: Things started going downhill for Eddie Murphy around the time of this 1986 clunker, in which the comic actor plays a social worker predicted to be the savior of a kidnapped child, who has special powers to heal the Earth. Dennis Feldman's script and director Michael Ritchie (The Candidate), a once-thoughtful satirist, stumble over every link in a chain of fantasy-fueled sequences. Murphy phones it in, and Charles Dance (Pascali's Island) looks foolish in retrospect. --Tom Keogh
They don't make movies like this anymore There was a time when movies expected us to suspend our disbelief as they followed a hilarious plot without the burden of self-reference or irony. Eddy Murphy shines in this light and uninhibited search for the child who will save the world from its sins.
Funny, Funny, Funny I saw this movie for the first time when I was 9 years old. 21 years later, I still laugh when I watch it. It has so many classic lines in it. "Only a man whose heart is pure can wield the knife and only a man whose a** is narrow can fit down these stairs." Ya gotta love it. It's Eddie Murphy at his 80s best and it's hilarious. It's a very good timepiece as well....in the opening shots, they show random scenes in L.A. and premium gas is only 99 cents a gallon! LOL!
Eddie Murphy saves the Day When a child with magical powers is kidnapped in Tibet, a Los Angeles social worker Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) is destined to save the "chosen one" and defeat the demon Sardo Numspa (Charles Dance). Great role by Victor Wong as the beggar/Lama. Plenty of laughs, good action.
Great movie! I love this movie. I love Eddie Murphy IN this film. I can't think of any reason why you wouldn't enjoy it. It has comedy, love, adventure and fantasy all in one package.
Pass this one by What a terrible, low budget, movie. We could not finish it.
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