“You fucked up a perfectly good lie,” Eddie Murphy’s Axel Foley says to two Beverly Hills police officers in the smash 1984 hit. Foley, a Detroit police officer conducting his own freelance investigation in California, just convinced the two straitlaced local officers to join him in a strip club, where Foley foiled an attempted robbery. Covering everyone, he tells the BHPD lieutenant that in fact it was “supercops” Billy Rosewood and John Taggart who made the bust.
The movie’s story, by former Los Angeles detective Will Beall, is both convoluted and as simple as can be. Through all the twists and turns, never for a second do we doubt that Jane and Rosewood have it right. From his first appearance on screen, Bacon is hilariously untrustworthy.
In the year 2024, I’m not convinced quite so many viewers are going to be interested in parsing the differences between Axel Foley and Cade Grant. It’s been three decades since the lastmovie, long enough for a sea change in the way viewers think about police—hell, long enough for the real-life officer who played Axel Foley’s boss to bewill be perfectly successful for Netflix, drawing an audience hungry for nostalgia—nostalgia the movie serves up willingly.
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