What a terrible, low budget, movie. We could not finish it.

Eddie Murphy is funny here but the story is so bogus that all it has is Murphy`s name to carry it through. Murphy plays a social worker who specializes in finding lost children, is hired by an tibertian woman to locate an anjelliac child who was kidnapped by demoic forces. I give Eddie Murphy credit he did his best in trying to make something out of a mediocre script with his humor but he should of stayed away from the person(s) who talked him into making this film. After seeing this film i see why Eddie Murphy was anxious to do BEVERLY HILLS COP II a year later and try to regain his box office bankabillty.

This is a bland action adventure typical of the 1980s.

Eddie Murphy is a detective specializing in finding missing children. He likes kids, so we know he’s a good guy. Then he’s hired to find the “Golden Child,” a child mystic who was kidnapped from a Tibetan monestary. If the child dies, evil shall rule the world.

The script just meanders. Murphy goes here and there on his misadventures, making wisecracks that just lay there. As does the script. He fights a biker gang and Chinese gangsters, meets demons, Tibetan monks, and always shows his trademark irreverance.

But Murphy’s character is bland (unlike his more fully realized character in COMING TO AMERICA). And his wisecracks are old and predictable. He enters a room to kill a bad guy, then the bad guy turns into a demon. So Murphy thinks better of it and leaves, wisecracking, “Okay, I can see you’re busy. I’ll talk to you later.”

It’s not a horrible film. Charlotte Lewis is attractive, and there’s some decent action sequences. But characters, storyline, dialogue are full of cliches and tired old wisecraks. Utterly predictiable as it meaders from start to finish.