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| Genre: | Comedy |
| Year: | 1987 |
| Length: | 1 Hour 42 Minutes |
| Cast: | Tony Scott, Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Jrgen Prochnow |
Attrition set in rather rapidly in the Beverly Hills Cop movie series. Here we have only the second installment, and the actors are already going through the by-rote motions one might find in the 26th episode of the sixth season of a declining TV series. Detroit cop Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) has seemingly smoothed out his differences with his Beverly Hills superior Bogomil (Ronny Cox), but there's trouble ahead for both men, not to mention two other holdovers from the first Cop film, officers Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and Taggart (John Ashton). The "untouchable" heavy this time out is masterminding a series of violent robberies, committed by leather-freak hoods Dean Stockwell and Brigitte Nielsen. Unaccumstomed to this nastiness, Bogomil entreats street-smart Foley to help find the miscreants. But mean-spirited chief of police Lutz (Allen Garfield) will brook no interference from outsiders-especially the profanely insouciant Mr. Foley. The film's plotline, comic vignettes and action setpieces are so "by the numbers" that the producers should have issued crayons to the audience. Still, the movie made heaps of money; after all, this was 1987, and Eddie Murphy could do no wrong....yet. Hal Erickson
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