Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F

This was a surreal experience watching a sequel to a 40 year old movie (less is you count the previous sequels). I was amazed at how m any of the original cast they were able to round up. After forty years I would have suspected many would have retired or passed away.

Eddie Murphy looks like he aged the least even though he's in his 60s now. The film itself is almost a tribute to the previous installments being very similar. You don't see films quite like this unless it is in the b-movie genre. Racing down a city street with abandon, destroying cars and property, no regard to by-standers. With guns fights galore and only the bad guys can miss. And no emotional repercussions for the good guys killing bad guys with abandon. If you want to relive an 1980's action film, this encapsulates it well.

Having seen the original in the movie theater this was like a time machine. I think the only thing that was really off putting was Eddie Murphy's character continual insinuation that his daughter had a sexual relationship with another character. This might have been funny back in the 80s but just doesn't work in this day and age.

Otherwise, welcome to the time machine.

I really wasn't expecting much. The third movie was so bad, and this one straight to streaming, I figured it would be a disaster. But it wasn't! I think if they tried to update it too much and there wasn't as much nostalgia (music, familiar characters), it would've been a flop.

The story is ok, just not very strong. The action was ok, but it was a a lot of rehashing of the opening sequence of the first movie - plus, everyone is so much older now, there can't be as much running or rolling around on the floor. The humor throughout is decent, I wish there was more.

The weakest of it all is the actor who played Jane. Unfortunately, she's not very good in the emoting department - she's way worse than Brigitte Nielsen was in the second movie. Anyways, it's still a decent watch if one is a fan of the originals. It's good enough to have deserved a theatrical release. Not bad at all.

Was it a blockbuster movie? No. Was it fun to take a trip down memory lane having worked in the movie theater when the first came out? Yes! It was fun to see the original cast and characters. And it was great that they brought back the original songs from the first movie too.

Say what you will about it being a money grab or whatever, but we enjoyed seeing Axel, Billy, Taggart, Jeffrey and Serge again! They're great characters that we grew old with.

And Kevin just makes for a great villain. He's got the smile and swagger. You knew right away he was the bad guy.

We recommend watching it for the nostalgia value at least.

Axel is back!!! It was a pleasing film with the gang back again. The story was not complicated but fits the Beverly Hills Cop movies. The intro got you right back all those years ago. And how i have missed the humor of Eddie Murphy on the big screen. The film had the humor and action we came to love from the first films. Yes, it can never beat the original films but they were simply that good and the gang was ofcourse a lot younger. Taggert surprised me with a energetic performance for his respectable age! I was completey back in the Foley universe and enjoyed it! Thank you Eddie, good to see you again!

I'm a sucker for a good nostalgia movie. Stallone did it with Rocky and Rambo, Ford with Indy, Han Solo and Deckard, Cruise with Maverick... now it's Eddie Murphy's turn with Axel F!

I thought the third movie had definitely killed off any hope of another but this definitely recaptures some of the magic of the original movie without going over the top to get a laugh, which is what I think was the problem with number three.

A great mix of action and comedy without going too far for the laughs. Great to see Taggart and Rosewood back together, with some great additional characters. Sime interesting cameo appearances too.