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What's that? How, given that in this movie if Nick Nolte had stood in front of the sun he could have caused a complete solar eclipse in Mongolia, was CEGIWB (Crazy Eyed Guy In Wife Beater) able to miss Nick Nolte? I think will just have to chalk that up to Hollywood magic and leave it at that. Seriously dude, drop it. If you want physics in action, watch NOVA.
After the big shoot out Nick heads back to the station house to get a new gun, a bunch of clues to keep the movie going, and an IV hookup to a bottle of Jack Daniels. We also meet the one guy you couldn't make a crappy 80's action movie without, the screaming black police lieutenant. A large black man in a cheap brown suit comes out and screams incoherently at Nick, raging about having Nick's badge or ass, or possibly his ass and his badge, but he still ends up topping off Nick's flask, wiping his nose and sending him back out on to the streets. It is little realistic scenes like this that make this movie work on so many levels.
Anyway, thanks to an extra wandering up and handing Nick a piece of paper with the important clue, the movie is able to keep going. Nick heads out to the local prison to talk to a convict who used to be in the same gang as CEGIWB, the guy from Predator, and the dead Asian guy on the bench (you see how everything in the movie ties together?)
Nick gets out to the prison and it turns out the convict is Eddie Murphy. In the movie Eddie is a hot shot thief in jail for a robbery, and if you have a hard time buying that may I remind you that it was 1982 and Eddie was also Gumby god damn it!
Eddie says he can help Nick Nolte but he has to get out of jail to do it. Now in real life there is no way a guy serving time would ever be sent out on the streets, but this isn't real life; I mean when was the last time you saw a pop corn stand in real life? Well besides at the movies?
Anyway Nick and Eddie hit the streets to solve the case. Well really it's more like 20 minutes of Nick mumbling racial slurs and Eddie sexually harassing everything up to and including a fire hydrant. This was a hit movie in 1982. Do you kids out there see what your entertainment choices are like when you only have 20 cable channels? You don't know how lucky you have it, and get the hell off my lawn!
Finally Eddie and Nick talk through their differences and become the best of chums. Just Kidding! They whack the hell out each other in an alley, because there's no quicker way to male friendship then mutual blunt force trauma to the cranium.
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