Review – The Golden Child

This is an odd mixture of fantasy film (usually the domain of the very young and the very dorky) and slick, cynical Eddie Murphy vehicle. Odder still is that the combination actually kinda works. Murphy plays a street-wise private detective recruited by Tibetan mystics to snatch a Dalai-Lama-like child back from the gaggle of demons, mutants and criminals who kidnapped him. Some of the effects are a little amateurish, but the comedy works well with the drama and the plot keeps moving fairly well. Mildly amusing