“Beverly Hills Cop” Is It a Recycled Rhythm? – 2024
The Glenn Frey song “The Heat Is On,” including saxophone blasts, can be heard less than a minute into the film, which is only available on Netflix. The Pointer Sisters’ “Neutron Dance” and Bob Seger’s “Shakedown” from Beverly Hills Cop II, which echoes the previous chapter, come right after.
In the opening montage, Eddie Murphy plays Detroit investigator Axel Foley, still sporting his broad-as-a-superhighway smile.
He drives throughout the city while pictures of regular people passing by flash by, clearly alluding to the opening sequence that launched the franchise.
Axel gets into the customary difficulty with his superiors after the main set piece, an attempted heist at a Detroit Red Wings game that he is desperate to stop.
Subsequently, Axel finds out that two people he loves are possibly in danger in Los Angeles: his estranged daughter Jane, a criminal defense lawyer defending a client who might have been set up by dishonest police officers, and Axel’s old friend Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold),
Who is also involved in uncovering the truth about the same police officers? Given that Axel works in Michigan, he returns to Beverly Hills faster than you can say, Harold Faltermeyer. He is attempting to solve a case that is far outside of his purview.
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F follows the same plug-and-play narrative framework as the first three movies, making it a rather predictable movie. However, that’s the case with every Beverly Hills Cop movie.
The first two were so popular because they served as vehicles for Murphy’s charms as a complete ham who would freak out or talk in a parade of ridiculous voices to make people laugh. In my opinion,
Beverly Hills Cop III is not a masterpiece. Axel F also does that, but more than anything, it serves as a reminder of how enjoyable watching a Beverly Hills Cop movie can be.
