Description: Eddie Murphy production in which 1930s Harlem nightclub owners wage war with a mobster over their turf. Exciting cast can't save this disappointment.
Does it matter to Eddie Murphy whether Harlem Nights is good or bad? It doesn't look like it. Desson Thomson,Washington Post
Once there was Freddy. Once there was Chuckie and Jason and Howard the Duck. Now there is the scariest of them all. Now there is Harlem Nights. Hal Hinson,Washington Post
An uninspired cross between Cotton Club and the characters of Damon Runyon, told in cliches so broad you keep waiting for it to poke fun at itself, but it never does. Roger Ebert,Chicago Sun-Times