The Golden Child
1986 Directed by Michael Ritchie
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Eddie Murphy is the chosen one.
A detective specializing in missing children is on a madcap mission to save a youth with mystical powers who's been abducted by an evil cult. He battles a band of super-nasties, scrambles through a booby-trapped chamber of horrors and traverses Tibet to obtain a sacred dagger.
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Ha! I still like this movie but my wife made fun of me for it.
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First time watch and that's more than 20 years to late. I think I would have loved this as a boy. It's pretty silly and not really good, but highly enjoyable in my book.
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One of the best ham and cheese sandwiches I've ever seen.
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Love this film. It's incredibly underrated and extremely funny. Eddie Murphy was totally on his game in this one. It's arguable this was, really, his last truly great comedic role. A very strange hybrid of nasty supernatural thriller with spot-on comedy, it's no wonder this one confused audiences back in the 80s. People were confused as to what it REALLY wanted to be, but this film is a blast. Still very funny after (many) repeated viewings and is my second favorite Murphy film after BEVERLY HILLS COP. Fans of Eddie Murphy need to revisit this one ASAP... you'll be surprised how well it holds up.
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A fun filled fantasy film with Eddie Murphy not as annoying as he will become in a lot of his later films (this is my opinion anyway). Overall the effects are very eighties and there are some fun moments and jokes that feel very out of date. Also there is a feeling at the end where Eddie get's told what he has to do they feel they are getting to the end of the time so they just have to finish it and the ending feels a bit rushed.
However the world feels real enough and the characters do enough and there are enough jokes to keep you entertained.
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It had some funny lines but for the most part I was bored. I know it's cheesy and some of it I enjoyed but it wasn't silly enough for me to really like. Eddie Murphy acting was good but the script was not. I just didn't enjoy the majority of this movie. Not terrible but disappointing. Not worth a watch.
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Been trying to get through this movie for sometime. Was hoping that it would be a comedic adventure fantasy movie....it wasn't. Now I know it was just one of the first shitty movies that Murphy made.
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I somehow missed this one back in the day and, as we had been watching Big Trouble in Little China the day before, I decided to throw this one into pool considering their multiple links (common actors, John Carpenter originally slated to direct, etc).
And I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised. I've never been a huge Eddy Murphy fan, but this one works well for him. The one-liners just keep coming.
It's light and doesn't take itself too seriously, just what you need some days.
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Ha! I still like this movie but my wife made fun of me for it.
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Excellent movie. Made my childhood's days funnier. Classic Eddie Murphy!
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First time watch and that's more than 20 years to late. I think I would have loved this as a boy. It's pretty silly and not really good, but highly enjoyable in my book.
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You'd think that a movie that was probably pitched as "Axel Foley on an an Indiana Jones adventure" would be be fun and hilarious, but this was just tedious and boring...
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Murphy is in top form and its a great comedy horror flick. The cgi can be great at times...lame at times. Bad guy is great!
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Love this film. It's incredibly underrated and extremely funny. Eddie Murphy was totally on his game in this one. It's arguable this was, really, his last truly great comedic role. A very strange hybrid of nasty supernatural thriller with spot-on comedy, it's no wonder this one confused audiences back in the 80s. People were confused as to what it REALLY wanted to be, but this film is a blast. Still very funny after (many) repeated viewings and is my second favorite Murphy film after BEVERLY HILLS COP. Fans of Eddie Murphy need to revisit this one ASAP... you'll be surprised how well it holds up.