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  Review by Cinemonster ★★★★ 7

  A world class comedian at the peak of his star power, a hungry and talented young director, a pitch perfect soundtrack and a fantastic array of character and improvisational actors take an otherwise 70s B story and turn it into something special.

  Eddie Murphy as fast-talking cop Axel Foley sets a bar that he has never surpassed. Judge Reinhold, Steven Berkoff, Bronson Pinchot, John Ashton and Ronny Cox hold their own (but not their laughter) with Murphy, with Cox, Reinhold and Ashton having fantastic chemistry with him and each other. Action and editing are top-notch as Martin Brest showed a talent that hinted at a big career that unfortunately did not come to pass.

  Producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer…

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  Review by Evan ★★★½ 5

  Who else misses the fun and entertaining Eddie Murphy?

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  Review by ☆ sophie ☆ ★★★½ 4

  the axel f theme song is going to be stuck in my head for the rest of the year now

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★★

  Look I prefer the infinitely lazier COP 2 because of its barely tolerable shtick, early Tony Scott sheen, and star vehicle laziness, but this is the real thing, a snobs vs. snobs comedy starring one of the most incandescent performers of all time that also happens to be an accidental satire of so-called by-the-book law enforcement. Could not have worked with a white lead actor. A true phenomenon.

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  Review by russman ★★★

  Damn you Crazy Frog

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  Review by Matt The Snapper ★★★★

  That opening chase with Neutron Dance is one of the best opening action scenes ever. Don’t @ me.

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  Review by adambolt ★★★★

  axel: *takes a shit*

  the movie:

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  Review by Kat ★★★ 8

  All I could think of was the Peter Griffith tik tok song the entire time...

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  Review by theriverjordan ★★★ 31

  “Beverly Hills Cop” is what happens when an outsider artist collides with a resolute insider of the Hollywood system. It’s a movie with a rebellious spirit that plays almost too well within its own lines. 

  The outsider, Eddie Murphy, starred in two of the most formative 80s buddy law enforcement comedies: director Martin Brest’s “Beverly Hills Cop,” and Walter Hill’s 1982 “48 Hrs.,” where he partnered with a gruff Nick Nolte. 

  Hill, always scraping by on the margins of the studio system as a pseudo Sam Peckinpah, provoked the anarchical comedy of Murphy to an extent that it was sharpened as a weapon against the bigotry of the world. “48 Hrs.” is a righteously angry work; one that has no answers…

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  Review by Travis Lytle ★★★★ 8

  Effortlessly entertaining, Martin Brest's "Beverly Hills Cop" is a comedy that makes use of a little bit of action and a lot of charisma from star, Eddie Murphy. Murphy plays Axel Foley, a Detriot cop in Beverly Hills investigating a friend's murder. It is a fish-out-of-water story that succeeds with its ample sense of humor and hilarious leading man.

  The story is pretty straightforward stuff but makes the most out of its comic stranger-in-a-strange-land conceit. Beverly Hills is nothing like Detroit, and it provides a screenplay's worth of laugh-inducing situations. The caper at hand does not generate the most compelling mystery, but the film's energy and characters propel the film forward.

  The film is a worthy star-vehicle for Murphy, and…

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  Review by EccyReviews ★★★★

  Damn I miss Eddie Murphy being in movies so much

  So I finally watched Beverly Hills Cop and it was an absolute blast found myself laughing every 5 minutes Eddie Murphy just carried the movie massively and I’m so excited to watch the rest of the trilogy. Definitely worth the watch absolutely hilarious.👍👍🚔👮🏿‍♂️👮🏻‍♂️👮🏼‍♂️🔫😵🩸🤜🤛😂🎥🎥

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  Review by anna nomaly ★★★½

  Eddie Murphy operates at an incredibly high level of acting as Axel Foley, creating an undisputed classic comedy character and a complete human being out of whole cloth, granting the man interiority in just about every situation as he carefully modulates his personality based on the other players’ age, sex, race, or position. He’ll kiss ass, he’ll cut you down, he’ll turn on the charm, he’ll whine like a petulant child if he thinks it’ll get him somewhere, and so much of that dimension comes solely from Murphy’s performance. Considering how dedicated Martin Brest is to handling its cops-and-criminals caper with grit, this probably would’ve been a solid movie regardless, but its star is the key to making it a memorable movie.