Beverly Hills Cop 2 was first released in 1987 and sees Eddie Murphy reprise his role as Axel Foley, the Detroit Detective who raised hell in Cop 1, this time Foley’s friend Bogomil is gunned down whilst on a case and Axel travels back to Beverly Hills and teams up with Taggart and Rosewood played by John Ashton and Judge Reinhold also from C1 to find out how.
Beverly Hills Cop 2 for me was a film that was split into two distinct halves, the first being a very funny comedy with some great chemistry between Murphy, Reinhold and Ashton, seeing the three work together was a great joy and for me, carried the film to being a somewhat decent sequel.
But Cop 2 had one fatal weakness that was just as strong as the film’s strength, near wall to wall action; personally I find this to be a mixed blessing and Tony Scott, brother of Ridley and the director of the film, doesn’t really make the action justifiable when what we want is more of Murphy, Reinhold and Ashton.
Out of 5, I will give this a 2 and a half, as while Murphy, Ashton and Reinhold are great to watch together, the action felt very routine.
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