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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
Beverly Hills Cop II
48
6.0
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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]
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 71 User Ratings
6.0
39% Positive
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
48% Mixed
34 Ratings
34 Ratings
13% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 71 User Ratings
6.0
39% Positive
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
48% Mixed
34 Ratings
34 Ratings
13% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
Beverly Hills Cop II made in 1987 see's the return of Detroit cop Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) who after an armed robbery on a jewellery establishment and a letter left at the scene investigates the so called Alphabet crimes. After Beverly Hills police departments Lieutenant Andrew Bogomil (Ronny Cox) gets gunned down in broad daylight Axel Foley (Murphy) teams up once again with cops Billy Rosewood and Taggart played by Judge Reinhold and John Ashton.... Slightly inferior sequel but good scenes especially the gunclub scenes and the nudity dancing scenes, the horse racing scenes were silly and the action scenes were done well... Full of explosions, chases, shootouts, nudity and comedy and fairly decent acting I'd say Beverly Hills Cop II is okay but nowhere near as good as the original.
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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.
In terms of production value, Cop II is a stylistic improvement over the original in many ways.... Scott's direction and some of those beautiful 'magic hour' sunset photography moments are pure 80's cheese at its best. Combined with the ADD pacing and cocaine fuelled editing - everything feels nicely 'heightened'. The excellent supporting cast return to deliver great performances. Sadly the plot is paper thin and even though really the whole film is a grand yet transparent vehicle to showcase Eddie Murphy for his comedic and dramatic skills on camera, I laughed more and felt the screenplay in BHC1 was stronger but enjoyed the 'cop action genre' stuff more in BHC2. This holds up well in 2020.
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Eddie Murphy rempile dans Le Flic chez les rupins sous la direction de Tony Scott qu'on a connu tout de même bien plus inspiré : un pur produit hollywoodien très bas de plafond donc, dans lequel le Noir agité revient tchatcher ses conneries sur un débit encore plus accéléré que d'habitude.
L'histoire est complètement con, le scénario est poussif et aberrant et le seul intérêt qu'on peut éventuellement y trouver est la belle et grande Brigitte Nielsen dans le rôle de la méchante parce qu'elle est trop grande, évidemment et que Eddie a l'air d'un nain de jardin épileptique à côté.
En tant que comédie, c'est raté (puisque pas drôle) et en tant que film d'action, c'est sacrément mou du genou. Et puis Eddie Foley, il vaudrait mieux rendre cette Ferrari que t'as volée, tu pourrais avoir des ennuis.
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Beverly Hills Cop II is the sequel to the action comedy, Beverly Hills Cop.... Beverly Hills Cop II sees the return of Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley and his buddies Judge Reinhold and John Ashton who are working on the alphabet crimes after a police officer is shot in broad daylight... Beverly Hills Cop II is good for a few cheesey laughs but fails as a sequel to the original because the edge the first had isn't operational in Beverly Hills Cop II and the blonde villain who's tall, Karla Fry played by Brigitte Nielsen is boring, annoying and an awful villain as so is Maxwell Dent as he seems dull and wooden. The storyline ****, some of the action scenes are good and some of the characters are annoying like Chief Lutz.... A loud and second rate sequel that took all the magic from the original and urinated on it and gift-wrapped it expecting to live up to the original but falls flat. Some of the acting is okay but Beverly Hills Cop II is watchable at best and a million miles away from a good sequel. Watch Beverly Hills Cop instead and avoid this Beverly Hills Cop II made in 1987 by Tony Scott as it's pure crap... Contains violence, nudity, bad language.
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
