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Beverly Hills Cop III<\/strong> (1994)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Paramount\/Action-Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 104 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language, violence)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: John Landis\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Steven E. de Souza\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Nile Rodgers\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Mac Ahlberg\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: May 25, 1994 (US)\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Cast: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Timothy Carhart, Hector Elizondo, John Saxon, Theresa Randle, Alan Young, Stephen McHattie, Bronson Pinchot, Gil Hill, Hattie Winston, Michael Bowen.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $42.6M (US)\/$119.2M (World)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Rating<\/strong>: *<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0In the ten years since Beverly Hills Cop broke box office records (it was the highest-grossing R-rated movie until The Matrix Reloaded), Eddie Murphy became a bona fide movie star. His movies made money. Then they didn\u2019t. By 1994, he needed a hit. His previous film, the political screwball comedy The Distinguished Gentleman, didn\u2019t even break the $50M mark. Hopes were high for Beverly Hills Cop III<\/strong>. Everybody hoped it would put Eddie back on top. It didn\u2019t. Why? Easy, it sucks!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0The magic is gone. By now, Axel Foley is a familiar figure in Beverly Hills. What\u2019s left for him to do? Director John Landis (Animal House, The Blues Brothers) seems to be trying to reinvent him as an action hero in the vein of Bruce Willis. Beverly Hills Cop III<\/strong> is best described as Die Hard at an amusement park. That\u2019s where Foley finds himself as he attempts to get the guy who killed his boss Inspector Todd (Hill) back in Detroit. It happened while he was trying to bust an illegal chop-shop. A bunch of guys show up unexpectedly and kill everyone in the joint. When Foley and his team launch their raid, Todd is gunned down by the leader of the group. He orders Foley to \u201cget that son of a bitch\u201d before dying.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0As usual, all roads lead back to 90210. Despite being ordered to stand down by Secret Service agent Steve Fulbright (McHattie, Watchmen), Foley moves forward with his unauthorized investigation.\u00a0Once he arrives in Beverly Hills, he finds things have changed a lot. His old pal Billy Rosewood (Reinhold, Vice Versa) has been promoted to some position that doesn’t make much sense even though he explains it in detail to Foley. Taggart has retired and so (presumably) has Bogomil. Billy\u2019s new partner is Detective Jon Flint (Elizondo, Pretty Woman) who, as it so happens, moonlights as a security guard at Wonder World, a theme park obviously modeled after a more famous one. That\u2019s where Foley spots Todd\u2019s killer, head of security Ellis DeWald (Carhart, Pink Cadillac). It turns out he\u2019s using the popular theme park as a front for his counterfeiting operation. Foley is determined to take him down then take him out.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Beverly Hills Cop III<\/strong> should have worked, especially under the direction of Landis who helmed two of Murphy\u2019s best movies, Trading Places and Coming to America. Reportedly, the director and the star clashed a lot on the set with Murphy refusing to engage with the comedic elements of the action-comedy. He felt that his character had matured and wanted to play Foley straight. The result is a flat and lifeless performance from the usually energetic comedian. It infects the rest of the movie as well. None of it is funny. It\u2019s not even mildly amusing. Not even the return of Bronson Pinchot as Serge, the former art gallery assistant who now designs sophisticated weapons, helps. It just serves as a sad reminder of a better BHC movie.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0As an action movie, Beverly Hills Cop III<\/strong> doesn\u2019t fare much better. It has some okay set-pieces like the part where Foley rescues a couple of children from a ride that\u2019s been sabotaged. However, it feels like it belongs in a different movie. It\u2019s something you\u2019d expect in Die Hard not Beverly Hills Cop. It just doesn\u2019t work here. None of it does really. The villain is rather vanilla. The plot offers nothing original or surprising. For example, somebody in law enforcement is involved in all the illegal activity. Isn\u2019t that always the case? It\u2019s embarrassingly easy to pick this person out. Then there\u2019s the part where Serge demonstrates one of his products for Foley. You know what this means, right? Yep, it\u2019s going to be featured in the climax. Why take the time to show it otherwise? Then there\u2019s the romantic subplot involving Foley and helpful park employee Janice (Randle, Bad Boys I, II & III). Ho-hum. Been there, done that. Who cares?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0The only real point of interest in Beverly Hills Cop III<\/strong> is Alan Young (of Mr. Ed fame) who shows up as Uncle Dave, founder and owner of Wonder World. Any resemblance to Walt Disney is not coincidental. He\u2019s better than the film deserves. He\u2019s also the only one who looks like he\u2019s having any fun. Everybody else appears bored and disinterested, especially Murphy. He\u2019s not into it all. He just goes through the motions. The whole of Beverly Hills Cop III<\/strong> feels forced as though the actors are just doing it for the paycheck and nothing else.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0No two ways about it, Beverly Hills Cop III <\/strong>is a bad movie. It makes Beverly Hills Cop II look great by comparison. Whereas the 1987 sequel was loud and incoherent, the three-quel is boring. It didn\u2019t even need to be made. What\u2019s the point? Who\u2019s he supposed to bump heads with now? It\u2019s his third visit to BH; he\u2019s used to the snooty, materialistic types that live there. And where are the uptight cops of the BHPD? Have they become so used to his brand of law and disorder that they don\u2019t even bother showing up anymore? What exactly is the point of Beverly Hills Cop III<\/strong>?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0If Murphy and Landis hoped this would be a comeback film for both of them, they were dead wrong. Beverly Hills Cop III<\/strong> is as DOA as they come. When a movie resorts to showing a couple of overweight guys dancing and lip-synching to a classic Motown song (The Supremes\u2019 \u201cCome See About Me\u201d), you know it\u2019s in trouble. This happens in the first five minutes and goes on way too long.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0The truly sad thing about Beverly Hills Cop III<\/strong> is that they had a better story idea in earlier drafts of the screenplay. It would have put Foley in London where he would have teamed up with a Scotland Yard detective played by Sean Connery. Now that\u2019s an idea with promise! Just imagine Foley screwing with stuffy British types. That\u2019s funny! In its final form, Beverly Hills Cop III<\/strong> falls flat on its face more than Jerry Lewis in one of his \u201ccomedies\u201d. It is a complete waste of time, talent and other resources. Unless you\u2019re a die-hard completist, it\u2019s okay to skip this one.<\/p>\r\n Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Paramount\/Action-Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 104 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language, violence)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: John Landis\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Steven E. de Souza\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Nile Rodgers\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Mac Ahlberg\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: May 25, 1994 (US)\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Cast: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Timothy Carhart, Hector Elizondo, John Saxon, Theresa Randle, Alan Young, Stephen McHattie, Bronson Pinchot, Gil Hill, Hattie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comedies","category-sequels-remakes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Beverly-Hills-Cop-III-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Beverly-Hills-Cop-III-POSTER.jpg?resize=620%2C920&ssl=1\")
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