Beverly Hills Cop

    Beverly Hills Cop
    1984

    Synopsis

    Fast-talking, quick-thinking Detroit street cop Axel Foley has bent more than a few rules and regs in his time, but when his best friend is murdered, he heads to sunny Beverly Hills to work the case like only he can.

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    Cast

    • Eddie MurphyDet. Axel Foley
    • Judge ReinholdDet. William 'Billy' Rosewood
    • John AshtonSgt. John Taggart
    • Lisa EilbacherJenny Summers
    • Ronny CoxLt. Bogomil
    • Steven BerkoffVictor Maitland
    • James RussoMikey Tandino
    • Jonathan BanksZack
    • Stephen ElliottChief Hubbard
    • Gilbert R. HillInsp. Douglas Todd

    Recommendations

    • 83

      Christian Science Monitor

      Beverly Hills Cop is an action movie and an Eddie Murphy vehicle first, but Brest's dramatic intelligence surfaces often enough to make a welcome difference in what could have been an ordinary crowd-pleaser. [13 Dec. 1984, p.35]
    • 80

      The New York Times

      Beverly Hills Cop finds Eddie Murphy doing what he does best: playing the shrewdest, hippest, fastest-talking underdog in a rich man's world.
    • 80

      Time

      Murphy exudes the kind of cheeky, cocky charm that has been missing from the screen since Cagney was a pup, snarling his way out of the ghetto. But as befits a manchild of the soft-spoken '80s, there is an insinuating sweetness about the heart that is always visible on the sleeve of Murphy's habitual sweatshirt.
    • 75

      Miami Herald

      Beverly Hills Cop is an old-fashioned movie; it's a star vehicle. And the star makes it worth the price of admission. [5 Dec. 1984, p.B1]
    • 75

      The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

      In Hollywood terms, Beverly Hills Cop harks back to the semi- good old days, to the studio era when stars were not always relied on to fix everything - this is unquestionably a star vehicle, but the star, an employee of his own production company, has been smart enough to surround himself with other, by no means lesser lights. [4 Dec. 1984]
    • 70

      Washington Post

      The result is a movie that can be wonderfully languid and wonderfully breakneck as well, a formula movie so gleefully bedizened with quirks that it always seems better than it is. [5 Dec. 1984, p.C1]
    • 70

      Newsweek

      Beverly Hills Cop is no masterpiece, but it uses Murphy to maximum effect. At its best, the movie is exactly as brazen, charming and mercurial as Murphy himself, which is to say it is unimaginable without him. [3 Dec. 1984, p.81]
    • 63

      Chicago Sun-Times

      Eddie Murphy looks like the latest victim of the Star Magic Syndrome, in which it is assumed that a movie will be a hit simply because it stars an enormously talented person. Thus it is not necessary to give much thought to what he does or says, or to the story he finds himself occupying.

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