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Highly Overrated But Still Good
Humbersi
The first must-see film of the year.
Lucia Ayala
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
RoboRabbit89
Let me start by saying that this is the best sequel in the series. I think this is maybe a bit more fun then the first, there's more action, more laughs, more thrills.I think the vibe of this one is going for a more fun tone, Judge Reinhold, John Aston and Eddie are back and the fun is non-stop.Their after a bad guy named Dent who is stealing oil and robing banks for his own gain.The cast is great and Brigitte Neilson is sexy, I think she is 6'3" she towers over Eddie which is kinda funny.Overall, a good movie I give it a 6.1/10. It's fun and a nice installment to the franchise. Highly recommended.
Robert Thompson (justbob1982)
Version I saw: UK DVD releaseActors: 6/10Plot/script: 6/10Photography/visual style: 6/10Music/score: 6/10Overall: 6/10It's easy to forget these days, but there was a time when Eddie Murphy was widely acknowledged as one of the funniest men alive. Beverly Hills Cop II is around the zenith of his power, and also that of director Tony Scott.Scott was just coming off Top Gun which, like it or not, is one of the most commercially successful films of all time, and thus incredibly influential. With these films, he practically set the template for 80s Hollywood: big, brash action scenes interspersed with big, brash... everything else.It suits Eddie Murphy perfectly, given that his stage persona is all about being the coolest, biggest personality in the room. Although it presents as a 'fish out of water' story, BHC2 is actually more like the tale of a virus entering a new population that has no immunity to it. Nobody can defend against the motor mouth of Axel, Murphy's character. I sometimes wished someone did in fact, just once, so that he could get out of the situation some other way, but he talked his way out of or into everything perfectly, without fail.It's an enjoyable romp, with a central trio whose friendship I believed in. Scott's fingerprint is visible in the thrilling car chase sequences and (literally) explosive shoot-outs. There's not much depth to it, but you can get that elsewhere, like in the work of Tony Scott's older brother Ridley. Tony (now sadly deceased) did stylish action thrillers, and he did them damn well.
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All the old token bits shoved in about tits and so on (it seems men must be a bit gay when a group of them sit around getting hard ons in a bar watching women stripping). Here we even have "sexy" blonde bimbos going with a guy just because he has a red sports car and giggling like Marilyn Monroe while giving him the sexy eye constantly.And random shots of girls dancing topless on poles(looking like they'd rather be elsewhere). Here Eddie even called one woman "bitch" while talking to other males about her (not the "bitch" that implies she was horrible, just "bitch" as in a name some men call the objects that are women (in the last movie they were chicks and other things). The pole stripper looked angry too like Eddie's character seems to be through this whole movie but men wouldn't notice since they were looking elsewhere (maybe Eddie didn't want to be there either which would explain his acting through this movie). And just for no reason we have the Playboy mansion involved.The rapid scene changes that cut out or abruptly ended dialog got boring too. There is one "memorable" scene where Eddie's character makes a bet that a cash exchange will be the next place robbed (after someone else told him about the place and they had a computer with the location on it - duh) and then he didn't even finish the sentence and it was cut to the next scene. Seems they just added bits where Eddie's character would be the one man hero of the piece guessing where crimes would happen next etc and then rushed to show us he was right. Or maybe they just edited bits because with all the tit conversations they went overtime and had to get rid of some parts.All the people shooting in this movie are so bad - the hit man who shoots at the ground as Axel runs away and the police who shoot out car lights. Axel couldn't hit a person in a car that wasn't moving but coincidentally hit all the targets at the shooting place and hit people when it suit the ridiculous plot.The first time Axel laughs the "Axel laugh" in the movie is like a setup also because there's staged silence and then the horrible laugh that anyone can fake. As if we were being rewarded for waiting by being given the token signature laugh by our hero. Other times when he laughed in the movie he would laugh normally and then go back to that laugh again as if someone else told him he swayed from the path of crazy fake laugh central. I think Eddie Murphy just phoned this one in and his wooden acting, inappropriate yelling, and inappropriate facial expressions for emotions show it. I guess he got paid either way and that is all that mattered.
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Three years after the original "Beverly Hills Cop" came out and astonished audiences, this charismatic sequel followed with Eddie Murphy in top form. Indeed, this is the kind of sequel where members of the original cast find themselves in jeopardy. As it turns out, Captain Andrew Bogomil (Ronny Cox of "Deliverance") gets gunned down a long-legged doll Karla Fry (Brigitte Nielsen of "Red Sonja") and before you can snap your fingers, Detriot Detective Alexl Foley is off to Los Angeles to unravel the case of the 'Alphabet Crimes.' Naturally, Detective Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhoold) and Sergeant John Taggart (John Aston) are on the case, too, but their efforts are mitigated by a cluelessly incompetent Police Chief Harold Lutz (Allen Garfield of "Nashville"),who has more than enough encounters with Axel. The eerie villains are led the sinister Maxwell Dent (Jürgen Prochnow of "Das Boot")and they have big plans that Axel foils. Meanwhile, in Detriot, Axel has his partner Detective Jeffrey Friedman (Paul Reiser) run interference for him with his departmental nemesis Inspector G. Douglas Todd (Gilbert Hill of "Beverly Hills Cops") while he is off cavorting in Beverly Hills. Tony Scott helms the action with his usual polish and "Beverly Hill Cops 2" looks pretty slick with its babes and its gunfights.
