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BEVERLY HILLS COP: AXEL F – Lorne Balfe
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
The 1984 action comedy Beverly Hills Cop was one of the cinematic cultural touchstones of the 1980s, a fish-out-of-water story about a motor-mouthed Detroit-based detective who comes to Los Angeles to investigate the death of a friend, and causes havoc amid the more straight-laced members of the Beverly Hills police department. It helped launch its star Eddie Murphy to global superstardom, grossed $234 million at the domestic box office – the highest-grossing film released that year – and spawned several sequels (although the less said about the risible Beverly Hills Cop III in 1994 the better). Now, thirty years later, director Mark Molloy and screenwriters Will Beall, Tom Gormican, and Kevin Etten bring us a third sequel, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. Read more…

