“Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F” is a movie starring Eddie Murphy. With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Taylour Paige, James Preston Rogers and Kevin Bacon.
Eddie Murphy is back to reprise one of his most iconic roles, Axel Foley, once again returning to Beverly Hills. With the same soundtrack and the same sense of humor while picking up the narrative style, this time, the story features Taylor Paige as Foley’s daughter with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Kevin Bacon.
Plot of “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F”
Axel Foley, from Detroit, returns to Beverly Hills to investigate a case involving his lawyer daughter, who is being threatened to drop the case.
About the Movie
A gift for the fans of the saga that, this time in another era, resumes the narrative style, the jokes, and some of the characters of the original trilogy to give us a movie very similar in every way to the originals; though with the constant reminder: if you are old enough to remember the first ones, you have aged a bit.
Yes, it is a film that, under the joyful eighties of action comedies, has a marked retro side and a deliberately outdated style: it was what we expected and it does not disappoint in this sense, even though what would have been a good movie in its time is, today, almost a conscious exercise in nostalgia. This being said, it is still entertaining and introduces new characters on the same narrative style.
Eddie Murphy strives to please at all times, and the film equally strives to regain its past glory. The original trilogy was one of the most emblematic of those years and created many of the clichés that were later used in action comedies. Today, from repeating those same clichés, they wore out and evolved and, precisely, “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F” returns to those original clichés that, already worn out by other movies, return to our nostalgic memory to pull out a smile, but to tell us very little. Without innovation, all nostalgia.
Our Opinion
Is Eddie Murphy still funny? Yes, he still has it and knows how to play the same character in exactly the same way again, but time has passed and this is something that this movie does not hesitate to overlook and remind us. Despite all its laughs and high-spirited action, the film exudes a certain scent of sadness because, as the characters keep reminding us, we have all aged a little since those 80s.
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