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There's so many inconsistencies and impossibilities in this that it's laughable. I read the book and I'm not faulting the series for being totally different. The way the police operate, anyone who's ever watched any police dramas on TV no that the way the police behaved in this series was comical. Example they come to the house and ask Greer to come downtown. She agrees and says let me get my bag. The next scene we see several police carrying her computer and all kinds of other personal items out of the house. Excuse me? That's called a search warrant! Words that were never spoken in the scene. There were many scenes like that that were just laughable. Great cast of actors. A lot of scenes that don't seem to have any purpose especially ones involving Thomas. The whole thing is just a mess.

I saw how successful this movie has been since it opened, forgetting that it's drawing on the strength of the original. So I took my son and paid the $30 for two seats to see a pedestrian sequel of a very artsy original movie released over 30 years ago.

I immediately noticed Within the first 30 minutes was no one openly laughing in the moderately crowded theater, Including us. The plot seemed confusing compared to the original. Getting the original cast mostly back was delightful, but as other reviewers have made note of, nostalgia only goes so far. I'm going to watch the original one again because it was such a cool visual movie. I'm going to compare the two. Anyway, there's a handful of decent scenes but again nothing laugh out loud. It felt like a typical sequel, playing off the original nostalgia but nothing new. Disappointing.

I watched this movie with my son, knowing it was not going to be some kind of masterpiece. It was just OK and honestly, most of it was very boring. I started falling asleep in the middle. Something about the way the scenes were edited together? It started off with a lot of action and then there was just a lot of dialogue for a long time. Most of the actors were just too old to be in an action movie. Judge Reinholdt, Paul Riser being two of them.

The weirdest thing that hit me was, there are a lot of jokes mixed in with some serious and very graphic action where people are shot and die. Usually, when there's a comedy that involves shootings, people aren't killed. That mixture of comedy and serious killings is kind of creepy. Like someone gets a bullet through the head and it's funny?

Eddie Murphy was mostly fine and funny but the supporting cast not so much. Sort of a nice story about him and his estranged daughter saves the movie a little bit. You could miss this movie in your life would not be worse for it.