Beverly Hills Cop II

Watch: Beverly Hills Cop II

5/18/19871h 43m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Axel Foley is back. Back where he doesn't belong. ~

Overview:

Axel Foley returns to the land of sunshine and palm trees to investigate the near-fatal shooting of police Captain Andrew Bogomil. With the help of Sgt. Taggart and Det. Rosewood, they soon uncover that the shooting is associated with a series of "alphabet" robberies masterminded by a heartless weapons kingpin—and the chase is on.

Director:

Tony Scott

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$28,000,000.00

Revenue:

$299,965,036.00

Key words:

police
arms smuggling
intensive care
undercover
detective
investigation
armored car
strip club
sequel
shootout
gunfight
los angeles, california
detroit, michigan
horse track
beverly hills
black cop
buddy cop
credit card fraud
narcotics detective
playboy mansion
shooting range
robbery gang
superdetective
detective comedy
ferrari
amused

Cast

Eddie Murphy

~ as ~

Axel Foley

Judge Reinhold

~ as ~

Billy Rosewood

John Ashton

~ as ~

John Taggart

Jürgen Prochnow

~ as ~

Maxwell Dent

Ronny Cox

~ as ~

Andrew Bogomil

Brigitte Nielsen

~ as ~

Karla Fry

Allen Garfield

~ as ~

Harold Lutz

Dean Stockwell

~ as ~

Chip Cain

Paul Reiser

~ as ~

Jeffrey Friedman

Gilbert R. Hill

~ as ~

Inspector Todd

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Reviews (2)

JPV852
Written 5 year(s) ago
7
Entertaining enough sequel isn't as sharp as the original and some parts felt like Murphy's stand-up routine, and while the plot itself was weak, did enjoy the on-screen friendships between Murphy, Reinhold and Ashton. 3.5/5
CinemaSerf
Written 2 year(s) ago
6
Well I suppose a sequel to the 1984 success was inevitable, and to be fair Tony Scott has managed to re-assemble the cast from the first film and recruit Jürgen Prochnow ("Dent") to adopt the Steven Berkoff role as baddie-in-chief. The rest of this is pretty much a straight copy of the original as Eddie Murphy's "Foley" reunites with "Ashton" (John Taggart) and "Rosewood" (Judge Reinhold) to get to the bottom of an assassination attempt on their beloved "Bogomil" (Ronny Cox) after he had been suspended for failing to make inroads into the media-dominating "alphabet crimes". What now ensues is really a vehicle for the star and his quick-mouth. The others continue to deliver well as foils for his antics, though this time they are more active participants and less unwilling victims! The plot is thin, but that doesn't matter - Prochnow offers just about enough menace and there are still plenty of perilous scenarios for them to, obviously, get trapped into and then escape from! It clearly isn't as fresh now, the characters are regurgitating themselves to some extent, but as sequels go this one retains much of the character and joie de vivre of the fish-out-of-water aspects that worked well before. It's not great, but it's an easy and entertaining film to watch.