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- 1987
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 40 m
- 1987
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 40 m
Summary Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to help Taggart and Rosewood investigate the shooting of Chief Bogomil and a series of "alphabet crimes."
Directed By: Tony Scott
- 1987
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 40 m
- 1987
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 40 m
Summary Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to help Taggart and Rosewood investigate the shooting of Chief Bogomil and a series of "alphabet crimes."
Directed By: Tony Scott
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
48
27% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
36% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
36% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
48
27% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
36% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
36% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Aside from the plot -- and if you can figure out the plot, the CIA's special projects unit wants to talk to you -- Cop II is a rarity: a sequel that's as good as the original, if not better.
Cop II doesn't sizzle like the original. It plays like a movie made by the numbers, an excuse to trot out Murphy and let him reprise the moves that earned the first Cop $350 million and status as the top-grossing comedy in film history. [20 May 1987, p.D1]
There is an inherent problem about any sequel that too slavishly duplicates the style and substance of its predecessor; it cannot deliver the delight of discovery that the original provided. Axel made a swell first impression, but he is still living on it, perhaps not yet a bore, but not quite as fascinating as he once promised to be.
Beverly Hills Cop II puts its mega-star through a medieval trial, an ordeal by dullness. Survive these surroundings, Eddie Murphy, and you must truly be one very funny guy. Well, Eddie survives, barely, and taking our cue straight from him, so do we, almost. [22 May 1987]
The combination of caveman dialogue, overcooked action, and anything-for-an-effect performances is maddeningly crude even by cop-movie standards. [22 May 1987, p.23]
It's hard to believe that the group who came up with the hard, clean edges of "Top Gun," sleek and unfeeling though it may have been, could make a picture as crude, as muddled, as destructo-Derbyish as this one. If Beverly Hills Cop II is its opening salvo, this is going to be a long, smoggy summer. [20 May 1987]
Part 2 seems even more like a Stallone vehicle than the first movie. I'm not even sure it's intended as a comedy. It's filled wall to wall with the kind of routine action and violence that Hollywood extrudes by the yard and shrink-wraps to order.
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
