Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F John Ashton as Chief John Taggart, Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley and Judge Reinhold as Billy Rosewood in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. Cr. Melinda Sue Gordon/Netflix ©2024Axel Foley is back and better than ever. Forty years ago, Eddie Murphy starred in the original Beverly Hills Cop, which blew audiences away and became one of the comedian’s most famous films.
Fueled by nostalgia, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F spends the right amount of time playing the hits. It shows off the chaos of a Foley car chase and then kicks off the main story. The plot follows a defense attorney named Jane Saunders looking into a case. This is where the film finds its most significant fault—the story is not very interesting. The crime she is investigating happened offscreen, meaning there isn’t enough here for the audience to connect to these events emotionally.
The action is a shining element of this film. The previous franchise directors did a serviceable job with the action sequences, but they all could have been better. Mark Molloy directs this movie in his feature film debut. Few in history have landed a $150 million franchise film as their first movie, but he does solid work. There’s a standout action set piece with a helicopter, and it feels much more in-camera than the digitized CGI environments of recent Hollywood cinema.
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