Buddy cop movies were huge in the ‘80s and ‘90s.
Summary The buddy cop genre gained a new wave of popularity in the 1980s, and the following decade saw some classics of the genre. After Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte's 48 Hrs, studios have been throwing mismatched characters together to fight crime. The key to the buddy cop genre is the tension between the two main characters, as they are forced to work together.
Director John Landis Release Date May 25, 1994 Cast Eddie Murphy , Jon Tenney , Joey Travolta , Eugene Collier , Jimmy Ortega , Ousaun Elam Before Beverly Hills Cop III, Eddie Murphy had already worked with director John Landis on Coming to America and Trading Places, two of his best movies. Unfortunately, their creative partnership yielded a rare miss on this occasion, and it ended with the lowest point of the Beverly Hills Cop franchise.
Director Craig R. Baxley Release Date September 28, 1990 Cast Dolph Lundgren , Brian Benben , Betsy Brantley , Matthias Hues , Jay Bilas , Jim Haynie , David Ackroyd , Sherman Howard , Sam Anderson I Come in Peace, released originally as Dark Angel, is one of the weirdest action movies of the 1990s, but it's undeniably fun to watch. Dolph Lundgren stars as a vice cop who bends and breaks the rules in his pursuit of a gang of white-collar drug dealers in Houston.
7 The Last Boy Scout Bruce Willis And Damon Wayans Are A Charming Odd Couple Close The Last Boy Scout 6 Supercop Jackie Chan And Michelle Yeoh Show Off Their Martial Arts Skills Close The third entry in Jackie Chan's series of Police Story movies partners him up with Everything Everywhere All At Once's Michelle Yeoh, leading to an action overload to delight fans of the martial arts genre. Supercop has plenty of humor to go with its great fight scenes. Chan is operating at the peak of his powers, both in terms of dangerous stunts and physical humor.
Director John McTiernan Release Date May 19, 1995 Cast Bruce Willis , Jeremy Irons , Samuel L. Jackson , Graham Greene , Colleen Camp , Larry Bryggman , Sam Phillips The first Die Hard movie was a sensation that influenced the action genre for decades, but the franchise failed to immediately capitalize on this success. After the first sequel tried to retread the same ground, Die Hard With a Vengeance dared to shake things up by putting John McClane in the middle of a buddy cop movie. Samuel L.
The Bad Boys franchise has developed more interesting storylines since its first entry, but the special ingredient will always be the boisterous, brotherly dynamic between the two leads. From the explosive tea house shootout at the beginning, Hard Boiled lays down a marker as one of the most creative and kinetic action movies ever made. The action scenes use John Woo's signature style of gun fu, blending Eastern and Western influences into a glorious patchwork of stylized violence. Hard Boiled is an unusual style of buddy cop thriller, since the two detectives never know how far they can trust one another, but this makes it all the more exciting.
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