‘Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F’ Review: The Heat Is Off in Netflix’s Generic Legacy Sequel

Eddie Murphy returns as Axel Foley in an action comedy that will satisfy fans, but only if they don’t ask for much

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"Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F" (Credit: Netflix)

Look out world! Axel Foley is back and he’s better than … well, not “ever.” The new film isn’t as good as the first and second “Beverly Hills Cop,” not by a long shot. But it’s not as bad as “Beverly Hills Cop III.” So l guess Axel Foley is back and he’s better than he once was. Only once.

“Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F” stars Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley, who is not and has never been a “Beverly Hills cop.” He’s a quick-witted, down-to-earth Detroit cop who has, on three (now four) separate occasions, solved some crimes in Beverly Hills, a city so bourgeois it may as well be on a different planet.

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2 responses to “‘Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F’ Review: The Heat Is Off in Netflix’s Generic Legacy Sequel”

  1. sajirou Avatar
    sajirou

    The third movie was perfect, don’t care what anyone says, to me Axel F is the movie that people say 3 is. 3 is a gdamn masterpiece compared to this, I’d like to call his movie “Beverley Hills Cop: Where’s The Fun?” because there was no fun to be had here.

    Everybody over 40 feels like they’re phoning it in for a paycheck, Eddie Murphy not once does the Axel laugh, Billy is barely in it when he’s one of the best parts of one of these movies, Taggart is an asshole who isn’t neck deep in it with Foley. Instead he plays the “no nonsense chief that yells at the protagonist and calls them a loose cannon.” trope.

    There’s the absentee father trope that like this article mentions doesn’t make sense timeline wise with anything in the movie, there’s the broken up characters get back together trope, there’s the aforementioned “loose cannon” kicked off the force moment. It feels like most of the movie are tired cliche tropes that are NOT fun to get through, give us something fun! This is Beverly hills Cop! It’s supposed to be a comedy, where is it?

    I could barely make it through an hour of the 2 hour movie before I quit.

    If this is how Eddie treats his return to old properties, you bet he’s gonna F up Donkey and Shrek to the ‘nth degree.

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  2. Mr. B Avatar
    Mr. B

    Taylour Paige might be the worse actress ever! Even her wordless reaction shots are so bad we paused the movie to wince and cringe. Eddie’s lack of effort in the action scenes made it look like a 70’s TV show. Eddie still rocks and this was a solid C+. The helicopter scene was fresh. 

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