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Third time is not quite the charm for Eddie Murphy's Axel Foley when he heads for L.A. once again to avenge a friend's murder. This time he's off to the Disneyesque WonderWorld, apparently the most ha...( read more 
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MCT:September 28, 2008I think the ending could have been better but overall this is a great part 3 to the Beverly Hills Cop collection.
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MCT:August 16, 2008
The third movie in the series. Well it's better than the second one but i don't get the same vibes like those i get from the first and the second. One explanation could be that they put Taggart out of this one and that Billy Rosewood gets to little time to show his funny face. Otherwise there is some funny scenes in the movie. The best one must be when Serge shows up from nowhere.
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MCT:August 1, 2008
Great third installment of the Beverly Hills cop love the whole theme park idea and the action and comedy are still there. Only bad thing about this movie was taggat wasnt in it.
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MCT:July 20, 2008
Third time is not quite the charm for Eddie Murphy's Axel Foley when he heads for L.A. once again to avenge a friend's murder. This time he's off to the Disneyesque WonderWorld, apparently the most ha...( read more )zardous theme park in America despite an army of shady security agents. John Landis directed Murphy in his first film hit, Trading Places, and would seem a good match for this mix of action and comedy, but his sense of fun only emerges in a few scenes (chubby mechanics do a gymnastic Blues Brothers number to a Diana Ross tune) and his action direction is sloppy and shockingly violent. It seems wrong for the comic tone, and Murphy should have his foul mouth washed out with soap. On the plus side, Bronson Pinchot returns as Serge and all but upstages Murphy in two brief but hilarious scenes.
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MCT:July 17, 2008These do get slightly worse each time out. But het Axl Foley is a great creation - which the only reason for the stars
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MCT:July 11, 2008
Axel Foley: "You got a fifty dollar bill?"
Jon Flint: "I got a wife and three kids. I haven't seen a fifty in twelve years."
Beverly Hills Cop III is the weakest link in the Beverly Hills Cop series thus far. The wait between the second and third films is amazing...as this film hit cinemas 7 years after the second film was released. Apparently they just had trouble getting a story together. Amazingly, after all that heavy development, the plot doesn't make a lick of sense. They seemingly decided on a story which is more convoluted than that of the second film. Even more tragically, the film succumbs to far more clichés and a formulaic plot structure.
It's also obvious that there was trouble getting a cast together. Unfortunately, John Ashton is missing from the cast! His seminal interactions with Judge Reinhold were utterly priceless. Ashton must have read how appalling the script turned out to be...and opted to give this one a miss. What a smart move on his part! John Landis now tackles the duties as director. The director of Trading Places and The Blues Brothers seems very out of place in a Beverly Hills Cop instalment. The laughs are made subordinate to the action. Considering the general quality of the gags, this isn't a bad move. But the action scenes are far too violent it seems. It just doesn't fit in with the light-hearted comedy tone that was established in the first movie released a decade prior. Also in the film you'll find a love interest (*sigh*) and a stupid plot. In short - this is utter tosh!
The thin story once again follows the continuing adventures of Detroit police detective Axel Foley (Murphy). After the tragic death of one of his good friends, Axel vows revenge and begins his own investigation into the murder. Does anyone else get a sense of déjà vu in relation to the first movie? This third film is nothing more than a rehash of the plot of the original with a few new characters and plot twists. Anyway, Axel uncovers evidence that relates back to the Wonderland amusement park in California (an obvious satire of Disneyland, of course). Axel teams up with Rosewood (Reinhold) and another cop that is essentially the replacement for John Ashton's memorable character. While solving the crime, some convoluted plot unfolds in relation to counterfeiting money or something. I have no idea how that could warrant an all-out gun battle with the security guards at the theme parks! I mean, if it was a drama then it'd be sorted out with a legal battle. If it was an actual Beverly Hills Cop movie I'd expect some sneaky investigating similar like Axel's investigating in the first movie. But the genre is now all-out action like some pointless Stallone vehicle (in case you weren't aware, Sylvester Stallone was originally cast as Axel Foley)...so problems are solved using violence and gun battles. There never seems to be much point at all for any of it. Once again, just a thin plot created for the action.
New director John Landis makes this instalment more of a sequel to The Blues Brothers rather than a Beverly Hills Cop movie. The car chases are impressive and exciting; however there is never any point! Like I stated before, the humour is extremely thin. However some of the film's strongest moments lie in surprise return of the beloved Bronson Pinchot as Serge. Once again this character is criminally underutilised. His scenes are simply hysterical. Eddie Murphy is in top form: shooting, wise-cracking and grinning. It's obvious that all the returning cast members have aged...and they haven't aged gracefully. Judge Reinhold is now a Rambo wannabe as he blasts away villains without a second thought. What happened to his initial tactics of instead attempting an arrest?
Beverly Hills Cop III is loud, noisy, incoherent and pointless. The script forgets to include credibility and class...instead there are plenty of corny situations, pathetically written dialogue and a non-existent plot. On a positive note, the soundtrack is still impressive and adds something exciting to the otherwise incompetently-directed action scenes. The film rehashes pretty much every idea that featured during Foley's first two outings (avenging the death of a friend, two up-tight sidekicks, etc)...and manages to be boring as well as making no sense whatsoever. -
MCT:June 20, 2008
Despite getting caught with a tranny hooker, I think Murphy is hilarious and BH Cop is his best series
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MCT:May 24, 2008nah ill keep it short chris tucker and chris rock were starting to show on the comedy scene and thus taking thunder from murphy
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MCT:April 25, 2008Eddie Murphy did it again.....usually movies lose their appeal after 1 or even 2...but he kept it with even the 3rd.
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MCT:April 11, 2008Using my memory of when I saw it as a teenager, I gave it 1 1/2. However, I just seen it on cable recently. It is the worst one with bad direction but it is kinda funny.
The funniest thing about it is how unrealistic it is. I mean Judge Reinhold is shot with a machine gun, yet he only has a sling on his arm in the end. Still, the script should've stayed in the garbage where they most likely found it. -
MCT:April 7, 2008
great movie i really liked this one alot - and george Lucas is in it how much better can it get!!!!!!
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MCT:March 25, 2008Aaaaaah, memories - this ones personal - nothing to do with the movie, rather what happened during................
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MCT:March 21, 2008
A decent closer to a good comedy-action trilogy. Some of the plot is absurd but despite it's flaws, it's a classic.
Don't watch it unless you've seen the first two though, you wont appreciate it as much without watching them. -
Detroit Police Detective Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) returns to Beverly Hills. His boss Inspector Todd is killed as he evidence points towards an amusement park called "Wonderworld". Det. Sgt. John Taggart (John Ashton) had retired and a new detective called Jon Flint (Hector Elizondo) is Detective Billy Rosewood's new partner.
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Geez, always, always, always stop at two- you dip into that vat of hijinks too often, and you will inevitably fall short every single time. Not by a little either.
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MCT:February 3, 2008
The least funny of the three movies. This one was still worth the time to watch it. Funny is good, and Eddie Murphy is funny.
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MCT:February 3, 2008
Pending Review...
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MCT:January 30, 2008
I actually disagree with the other reviewers, I thought this was much better than the second one and about as good as the first! And I love Eddie Murphy's smile lol.
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MCT:January 28, 2008
Eddie Murphy's third outing as Detroit police detective Axel Foley who seems to have made more of a crime fighting contribution to Beverly Hills still generates some power in the series but the first two films are naturally the better ones. The film inexplicably removes the John Taggart (John Ashton) and Andrew Bogomil (Ronny Cox) characters from the series and adds a shallow new character named John Flint (Hector Elizondo). Fortunately, Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) is still around and he still manages to be a perfect foil for Foley. Foley's third case in Beverly Hills is a little improbable but the action scenes help to make up for the plot which has to do with Foley matching wits with a corrupt head of security (Timothy Carhart) at a popular Beverly Hills amusement park called WonderWorld (a creation of Paramount Parks). The park character costumes and designs are nice and colorful and Theresa Randle helps to pick things up as a potential love interest for Foley but the film doesn't give Murphy very many funny lines and that is a disappointment if one wants to label this film as a comedy. The action is as usual great but Murphy is reknowned as a comedy star and the lack of laughs here prevent this from being a perfect series. Still, it's a very good series.
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MCT:January 27, 2008
The previous two were great but this was horrible. Murphy was still funny but most of the acting was bad, Taggart was gone, chief dies and the storyline seemed like something thrown together because they couldn't think of something better. What happened to the chief of the Beverly Hills Police Department as well? A few key characters that made the movie great were either gone or killed off quick. Good thing Serge was brought back in this one.
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MCT:January 18, 2008
The first two were good - this one should have been put out under a different title so it didn't ruin the series
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MCT:January 18, 2008This doesn't work at all. The first film in the series was all right, the second one seemed mostly to want to cash in on success of the first one and this just isn't any good at all.
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MCT:January 14, 2008Just like the synopsis says, "third time is not quite the charm for Eddie." The unique jokes now become cheap jokes and everything else follows a highly typical plotline. Looks like without Jerry and Don, this franchaise is as good as dead.
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