The Golden Child

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Eddie Murphy lights up the screen in this fantastic and funny action-adventure. A Tibetan holy child has been kidnapped by evil forces...and Eddie is the L.A. investigator who has been ordained by fate to bring him back. Charlotte Lewis, Charles Dance co-star. 93 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital Surround, French Dolby Digital mono; theatrical trailer.
Things started going downhill for Eddie Murphy around the time of this 1986 clunker, in which the comic actor plays a social worker predicted to be the savior of a kidnapped child, who has special powers to heal the Earth. Dennis Feldman's script and director Michael Ritchie (The Candidate), a once-thoughtful satirist, stumble over every link in a chain of fantasy-fueled sequences. Murphy phones it in, and Charles Dance (Pascali's Island) looks foolish in retrospect. --Tom Keogh