The poster art shows Eddie Murphy with duct tape over his mouth, which as a promotional idea ranks right up there with Fred Astaire in leg irons. The idea is that every time he says a word a leaf falls off the magical bodhi tree in his back yard, and when the last leaf falls, he dies. Let’s stop right there. Why did the bodhi tree magically spring out of the earth fully grown? I don’t know. It must have something to do with a guru whose book he is trying to sell. — Roger Ebert