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Beverly Hills Cop (Special Collector's Edition)~ John Ashton is a great Eddie Murphy. The plot is well written, the music is the typical 80's movie music and the special effects are just on the mark. Eddie Murphy is amazing in the role as Axel Foley and this is one of my favorite Eddie Murphy movies of all time. The movie sure has a lot of 80's references like German Marks, and could be tricky for kids that did not grow up during the 80's. Highly recommended indeed. The plot is so much better then the sequels and I rank it as one of the better made 80's movie. The clothes , style and art are all a total hoot. I give it 5 out of 5 stars easily.
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It's great to see Beverly Hills Cop getting the recognition it deserves
as a really good action film and not just another "funny Eddie Murphy flick". The acting is very well done by all, especially by supporting actors
Judge Reinhold and John Ashton. Eddie Murphy wouldn't have done as well in the movie without the superb acting of his supporting cast. I've watched this film more times than I can count - my kids have left the room more than once because they're sick of seeing it. I guess that's one way to get them to do their homework!
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Every once in awhile a movie comes along that is truly different, truly fresh, and this movie was one of those. It stars Eddie Murphy as a Detroit cop named Axel Foley and is packed with action, comedy, a great soundtrack, and great scenes. The opening credits to Glenn Foley's "The Heat is On" are filled with a montage of Detroit street scenes that give a great flavor of Detroit, which will be juxtaposed with the glamour of Beverly Hills later in the movie.
The movie starts with Axel Foley negotiating the price of a semi truck full of cigarettes with a couple of mobsters. When they are surprised by a couple of uniformed Detroit cops in a squad car, one of the mobsters starts up the truck and takes off with Foley hanging on for dear life to a chain hanging from the top of the truck. This is one of the classicly funniest chase scenes ever done and ranks up with anything in the Blues Brothers.
Later Foley returns home after being chatised by his boss, Inspector Todd, played brilliantly by a real Detroit Detective named Gilbert R. Hill, only to find his friend from California in his kitchen. Later, when Foley's friend is murdered, he does the only thing a true friend would do, take vacation and head to California to track down the killers.
The rest of the movie is a look at how a gritty cop from Detroit gets along in glamorous Beverly Hills and more importantly how Beverly Hills gets along with a gritty Detroit cop.
Eddie Murphy is brilliant as Axel Foley poking fun at Beverly Hills, and Judge Reinhold and John Ashton are equally brilliant as Beverly Hills detectives assigned to watch Foley to keep him from creating havoc among Beverly Hills' elite. Along the way Bronson Pinchot almost completely steals the movie with an hilarious 5 minute part as a pretentious clerk in a swanky Beverly Hills art gallery.
All in all, this movie is a great two hours of entertainment that will leave you breathless, I can't recommend it enough.
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This is an excellent comedy/action movie that manages to be deeply funny without being offensive, a true accomplishment that sadly eludes many modern films. Set and cinematography are also excellent, without the over-the-top features that replace good plot and dialogue in many action/adventure/comedy films. Anybody without actual urban exposure might not notice the difference, but it was oddly nostalgic for me to see a close replica of my first crummy apartment in opening scenes of the movie.
Characters also, for the most part, manage to be interesting and compelling without being ridiculous and stilted steriotypes. Can you tell I have little patience for the increased-action-less-plot-and-character-development style of more recent movies? If you, too, like more story and personality in your movies, this is a great choice.
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This is a great film, one in the series of excellent films that Murphy did early in his career that have more creative energy in them than the later ones that he seems to just walk through. He proves himself to be an excellent actor and a hilarious comic at the same time, in perfect balance and never over the top. The other actors are also uniformly brilliant. I watched this again because I was just in Beverly Hills, and this gives a truly splendid take on the culture there. Every time I watch this I am rivetted while uproariously laughing.
Warmly recommended.
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