Reviewed by Colin Jacobson: As Eddie Murphy entered his second decade as a movie star, Boomerang found him stuck in neutral. While the film comes with occasional pleasures, it suffers from too many problems to turn into anything winning. Starring Eddie
The story for “Boomerang” is credited to Murphy, who may have seen this story as an amends after “Harlem Nights,” a shockingly sexist movie that included one scene where the Murphy character shot a woman dead while she was making love to him. This time the tables are turned. As Give...