Boomerang

In many ways, this is cornily predictable stuff, but it raises itself on a number of counts, with Murphy's transformation from a self-assured cocksman to bewildered, lovesick drip...

...Boomerang, Murphy's new movie, is powerful evidence that he's back on track. It shows a kinder, gentler, funnier Eddie Murphy than we've seen in recent years - a comic actor who can go for the little laughs as well as the big ones...

Kruger, Frank, and Adorf plan to crack a safe, but one of them tips the police out of jealousy.

After a promising 45 minutes, the movie melts into agelatinous puddle of screwball incoherence...