When BEVERLY HILLS COP II was made, Eddie Murphy was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood, and it's easy to see why. What's so funny about all the swear words? Why do you think there are so many in the Beverly Hills Cop movies?
It plays like a movie made by the numbers, an excuse to trot out Murphy and let him reprise the moves that earned. "Beverly Hills Cop II" is a movie that's loud and noisy at times, but it's funny and entertaining. And it's much better than the disappointing third movie in the series Two stars. One for the good will left over from the original and the fact that Sylvester Stallone, original choice for Axel Foley, didn't take this role.
Beverly Hills Cop II is an aggressively tedious sequel which copies the plot of the original and then piles on multiple problems to further dampen the experience. The percentage of Approved Tomatometer Critics who have given this movie a positive review. About Audience Score. "Beverly Hills Cop" is a movie with an enormously appealing idea -- a tough black At this point, the movie can go in one of two directions. It can become a perceptive and pointed satire about American attitudes, showing how the ultrachic denizens of Beverly Hills react to this black cop from Detroit. Odd Friendship: Apparently middle-aged family man Bogomil and young streetwise Cowboy Cop Foley have become best of pals between the first and second movie. Beverly Hills Cop II is a noisy, numbing, unimaginative, heartless remake of the original film.
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Read the latest news, features and the Empire review of the film. Starring: Eddie Murphy, Rebecca Ferratti, Judge Reinhold and others. Eddie Murphy returns as smooth Detroit street cop Axel Foley, who's back on the West Coast to track down a gunman and investigate a series of violent robberies. Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted.