Read Common Sense Media's Beverly Hills Cop review, age rating, and parents guide. In establishing shots at the beginning of the movie, people shown drinking on street corners and on curbs out of bottles covered in brown paper bags. "Beverly Hills Cop" is a movie with an enormously appealing idea -- a tough black detective from Detroit goes to Beverly Hills to avenge the murder of a friend -- but the filmmakers apparently expected Murphy to carry this idea entirely by himself. The film was loved by many action fans, as well as comedy fans and movie buffs at the time.
Beverly Hills Cop movie reviews & Metacritic score: Axel Foley, a freewheeling Detroit cop investigating the murder of his friend, finds himself Beverly Hills Cop is no masterpiece, but it uses Murphy to maximum effect. At its best, the movie is exactly as brazen, charming and mercurial as. The vastly entertaining Beverly Hills Cop remains noteworthy as the film that best makes use of Eddie Murphy's explosive comic instincts.
Murphy's third film was phenomenally successful at the box office, aided substantially by a hit-filled soundtrack. BEVERLY HILLS COP is an entertaining, if empty-headed, cop film in which street-smart Detroit detective Murphy sets out to. Beverly Hills Cop is a film that would only work with him starring. The entire film is built around him, and he fills any gaps with some splendid Murphy-ism's. For me, the ultimate childhood memory with a movie, is watching Beverly Hills Cop together with my dad. The Hollywood Reporter's original review is below.
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What You Need To Know: BEVERLY HILLS COP III, the continuing exploits of Eddie Murphy's character, Axel Foley, has the Detroit detective. Paramount is moving forward with a fourth installment in the "Beverly Hills Cop" franchise, Eddie Murphy is attached to reprise his role as Detroit detective Axel Foley. Find out everything Empire knows about Beverly Hills Cop. Read the latest news, features and the Empire review of the film.