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Rated: R; Genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Crime; With: Carmen Ejogo, Eddie Murphy, Michael Rapaport and Michael Wincott
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Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW
METRO (R) Eddie Murphy is back to tired old tricks, playing an uninspired variation on the cop character he's done for years. Only this time he's not even funny. As a hostage negotiator in pursuit of a murderous creep (Michael Wincott), Murphy looks grimly chic throughout the formulaic ordeal -- a notably sadistic exercise involving lots of beating, shooting, stabbing, and the stalking and torture of a woman. D-
Posted Jan 31, 1997
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