A bad movie

Somehow, most of the movies starring Eddie Murphy are broadcasted pretty often on the various Dutch channels and after spending 10 years in the Netherlands, I have actually seen all his movies (except his last one, ‘A Thousand Words’, but I will probably watch it at some point). And for this flick, I think it must have been the 4th time it was on TV but each time, I had something better to watch. Well, eventually, I finally watched it and it was indeed pretty terrible… Apparently, Eddie Murphy had actually nothing to do with this movie at first but since the movie tested so poorly, they gave him a fat check and they randomly added a few scenes starring the new rising star. When you watch this movie, it is so obvious how they added Murphy’s character out of nowhere, it was just rather pathetic and it barely made sense. The rest of the movie is just an annoying comedy with a bunch of characters constantly shouting at each other as if it should be funny. Somehow, the only thing about this plot is that it foreshadowed the invasion of Kuwait by Irak which would take place 6 years later but I’m not sure if you should consider it a redeeming feature. To conclude, the whole thing is a boring mess and it is definitely not worth a look.

4/10