Beverly Hills Cop III

Plot synopsis:
One night in Detroit, Axel Foley plans to arrest a gang of car thieves who run a local chop shop. Unbeknownst to his boss, Inspector G. Douglas Todd, Axel has canceled the SWAT, intending to raid the shop using only his team. Meanwhile, a group of men arrive at the chop shop to pick up a cube van that the car thieves had hijacked. The leader of the group confirms that the vehicle still contains its cargo, which consists of crates labelled as property of the U.S. government, then has his men execute the car thieves.
As the murderers are about to leave, Axel, unaware of what has happened inside, proceeds with his plan to enter the shop and quickly finds his team outgunned. Todd, arriving moments later, is fatally shot by the group's leader. As the perpetrators escapes in the cube van, an angry Foley gives chase in one of the partially disassembled cars from the shop, but is prevented from continuing the chase by Secret Service Agent Steve Fulbright. Fulbright informs Axel that the killer must remain on the loose because the federal government is pursuing a larger scheme in which he is involved.
After Todd's funeral, Axel learns that several clues left behind by the killers point to Wonder World, a theme park in Beverly Hills, California owned by "Uncle" Dave Thorton. Axel arrives in Beverly Hills and reunites with his friend Billy Rosewood, who has been promoted to "Deputy Director of Operations for Joint Systems Interdepartmental Operational Command" (DDO-JSIOC), and meets Billy's new partner, Jon Flint. It is revealed that John Taggart is now retired and is living in Phoenix, Arizona. Axel asks Flint to call his friend Ellis DeWald, the head of Wonder World's park security, to let him know that he's coming to the park for his investigation.
Axel meets and befriends Janice Perkins (Theresa Randle) whilst touring the park's behind-the-scenes facilities. Later, he is spotted by security, shot at and attacked hand-to-hand. Axel retreats to the surface where he cuts in line to enter the Spider Ferris wheel ride. The guards accidentally jam the ride, placing two little kids' lives in danger. Axel rescues them and is subsequently taken to park manager Orrin Sanderson. When DeWald is called in to contest the claim that Axel was attacked by the security men without prior challenge, Axel immediately recognizes DeWald as Todd's killer, but Rosewood and Flint refuse to believe that claim because DeWald is keeping an impeccable public reputation.
However, Axel is later visited by Uncle Dave and Janice, who inform him that the Wonder World park's designer and Dave's close friend, Roger Fry, has mysteriously disappeared while inspecting the grounds two weeks ago, leaving only a letter with a cryptic message. He tries to heckle DeWald into revealing his criminal involvements, despite continued admonishments by Agent Fulbright, but DeWald proves too smooth to be caught in a mistake. When Axel later digs deeper into a closed-off section of the park, he finds out that DeWald and Sanderson run a counterfeiting ring that uses Wonder World as a front, and DeWald was at the chop shop in Detroit to get his hands on blank printing paper used for American currency. Axel later meets with Uncle Dave to ask him about further details to find a piece of viable evidence, and thereby discovers that Fry's warning letter is actually written on a sheet of the stolen mint paper. Before he can make use of that evidence, however, Uncle Dave is shot by DeWald, and Axel is framed for his shooting.
After getting away from DeWald and bringing Uncle Dave to the next hospital, Axel sets out to prove his innocence by storming the park, calling Rosewood and Flint to assist him. The resulting shootout kills DeWald's henchmen, and after a hand-to-hand fight Axel shoots and kills DeWald. Agent Fulbright appears to explain that Axel was right, but Axel realizes his actual involvement with the counterfeiter and shoots him during a brief struggle. Uncle Dave makes a full recovery, and he thanks Axel for his assistance by creating a new character for Wonder World in his honor, Axel Fox.

Tags: comedy, murder, cult, violence, comic, revenge, entertaining

Review:
Better Than Given Credit For. Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy), while investigating a car theft ring, comes across something much bigger than that: the same men who shot his boss are running a counterfeit money ring out of a theme park in Los Angeles.This film generally gets a bad rap, being accused of being the worst in the series.
Eddie Murphy's third outing as Detroit police detective Axel Foley who seems to have made more of a crime fighting contribution to Beverly Hills still generates some power in the series but the first two films are naturally the better ones.
The park character costumes and designs are nice and colorful and Theresa Randle helps to pick things up as a potential love interest for Foley but the film doesn't give Murphy very many funny lines and that is a disappointment if one wants to label this film as a comedy.
Watched this for the first time last night, and was pretty disappointed (was on a triple bill with BHC 1 & 2 on Bravo, great way to ring in the New Year!).Not overly funny, the villains were pretty weak, which is odd as John Saxon is usually pretty good as a bad guy, and Tim Carhart was great as Eddie Willows on CSI.
Action pace and comedy by a magnificent Eddie Murphy who is back with his classic character Axel Foley , he is a foul-mouth,street-smart and freewheeling Detroit police agent .
It's a recital Eddie Murphy accompanied by two sympathetic partners, Reinhold and Helizondo substituting to John Ashton now retired , creating an authentic buddy movie , being developed in agility and movement.The picture contains spectacular scenes,stopped action as is usual in the Don Simpson-Jerry Brukheimer productions.
The action sequences are a complete joke as if it were a parody of itself.With Beverly Hills Cop 3, it's like the director forgot this wasn't a music video starring Michael Jackson or a B-grade teen movie.
It's not the worst film ever made, but it's nowhere near as good as the first two in the series and indeed doesn't even feel like a Beverley Hill Cop movie..
The plot is all so extremely interesting, better then the second, But there is one thing that this film lacks....and that is the character trio of Axel rosewood and taggert...there were comedy geniuses at work in the first too.
You may call me bias for being a Eddie Murphy fan but this is one of my favourite films in the Beverley hills cop series.....even if it isn't as good....
The 1st 2 are definately far superior to Beverley Hills Cop 3, but never the less this movie is still very good.The return of Serge is a god move as it brings back plenty of laughs and the use of a theme park is also a very good move as not many films use a hideout which is family orientated.This film is hilarious and if anyone disagrees then please e-mail me..
John Landis' action scenes are flat and static, with no real spark or energy.All three Beverly Hills Cop movies have had horrible scripts, huge plot holes, and hammy villains, so I guess in a way it IS in keeping with the tradition.
Billy Rosewood returns, so don't think Murphy is the only continuing actor of the series, and Axel's boss (The foul-mouthed one) has a part in the movie...MY RATINGS: 7 / 10.
By critics' reviews, Part III may have been the worst off of the three Beverly Hills Cop movies by far; however, I thought it was still fun to watch and great entertainment.
Part III deals with Detroit Cop Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) stumbling upon a counterfeit ring, operating from a Beverly Hills theme park by a corrupt community leader Ellis De Wald (Timothy Carhart).
De Wald, the main villain, is probably the most ruthless of all the bad guys in the three movies - very devious and trigger-happy.Theresa Randle was great as park employee Janice, and she had good on-screen chemistry with Murphy.
Eddie Murphy returns again as the always lovable Axel Foley who returns to Beverly Hills on a roller coaster ride of thrills at Wonderworld amusement park.The casting of this film in some ways isn't as strong as the previous two but in some ways just as good.Either way,I found this movie to be the funniest of the Beverly Hills Cop trilogy.Another main reason why I thought this was the funniest of the three was because Judge Reinhold is in perfect form as Axel's best friend,Detective Billy Rosewood.The rest of the cast was also well placed and I thought the directing by John Landis was good for a movie like this.I am hoping that if they make a fourth one that it can live up to the likes of the previous three including this one..
The opening sequence in Detroit gets the film off to a good start with a shocking and unexpected moment, which prompts Axel to return once again to the land of Beverly Hills.
Once things get going, it's clear to see that this is a different film from the others in terms of how much comedy there is.Bronson Pinchot's Serge returns in a funny scene, but John Ashton (and Ronny Cox) are absent this time around, Det. Taggart having retired.
Beverly Hills Cop 3 is an enjoyable movie with a decent storyline and a good comedic cast.Its certainly not better than the first two Beverly Hills Cop but it's still has good comedy and action.My main problem is that Eddie Murphy just didn't seem as inspired this time around,he made Axel in to a much more serious character,I'm not sure if that's how the script was written but I think it was just his acting,definitely one of Murphy's most dull performances,he is usually much more lively.However there still are scenes where Axel Foley had me laughing out loud and Murphy was really in character,particularly the scene where he accidentally ends up in stage and starts dancing with the costumed characters.I really enjoy the Beverly Hills Cop movies and hope a fourth one is someday made,Murphy's age will not be a problem because he still looks great and still plays very lively characters in his movies.Fans of the first two will without a doubt be disappointed,but should definitely watch it because the characters and story is still good.
Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) returns to Beverly Hills to find the men who killed his boss,and finds out the case is much more difficult when it leads him to a theme park where the same men are making counterfeit money within the park..
I thought Beverly Hills Cop III was a good film and Murphy gave a good performance as Axel Foley in it but I was rather disappointment with the absent of John Taggert.
All in all a good movie and great action I give Beverly Hills Cop III an 8 out of 10..
Beverly hills cop III is the third film in the Beverly Hills Cop series.The fourth one is set to come out in 2009 or 2010.The bald cop from the first two films is gone but Eddie and Judge return.There are a few funny scenes and is overall pretty entertaining.It is just not as good as the first two Beverly Hills Cop movies.Axel's partner gets killed during an investigation.So Axel tracks the villain to a theme park, where he causes havoc and tries to find a way to bring the man to justice.The film also stars John Saxon(Enter The Dragon, Nightmare On Elm Street).Beverly Hills Cop III is a good enough sequel, just not as good as the others).
Sensibly Simpson and Bruckheimer played no part - and must have winced at the awfulness of it (even though they did 1 or 2 horrors themselves - remember Days of Thunder?).I stumbled upon this film by mistake tonight - definitely so bad it was funny...John Landis must be trying to forget this one - the guy who made Trading Places, Blues Brothers at al must have been real short of dough to take on this one - an empty, pointless and uninteresting script encompassing an awful plot, worse characterisation and total absence of tension, meaning or message.The whole film is utterly inane and implausible to anyone over the age of 10.This was quite big budget - it doesn't show; together with awful music, it looks like a TV Movie, and the way it jerks along from one contrived and tedious set-piece to another confirms this.Two knights of Hollywood - George Lucas and Ray Harryhausen (the modellist of films like Clash of the Titans and the Sinbad movies) also make irrelevant cameo appearances.
Before I read other people's comments I thought that this movie was the best one of the series and the last good film of Eddy Murphy because I think that Eddy's 90's films isn't good because they isn't so brilliant as th 80's.So i think that many people criticize this movie because they remark the fact that in this there isn't the last two films characters but, If someone see this film not thinking this, can find it amusing and better then the other ones because of the presence of amazing scenes like the one of the ferris wheel.So i think this movie isn't so bad as many people think despite its disappoint proceeds in the 1994..
At one time John Landis made great films, Animal House, An American Werewolve in London, Trading Places etc, at one time Eddie Murphy made great films, Beverly Hills Cop, 48 Hrs, Trading Places and Coming to America, sadly they also made this, a travesty and an insult to the brilliant original.
I don't blame Eddie, but he has nothing to work with here, the script is lame, the story is pathetic and it just doesn't FEEL or LOOK like a Beverly Hills Cop film.
Both I and II were serious cops and robbers action movies into which Eddie Murphy added his style of comedy.
I remember a movie magazine interview, Eddie Murphy said that the film is "different from the other two movies, as Axel is mature and not a rookie cop anymore." He said this was as wanted to be taken seriously like Denzel Washington.
Director John Landis claimed that Eddie Murphy worked against the comedy of the film by deliberately not being funny.
I still remember the George Lucas cameo, Murphy's stunt man is considerably heavier than Murphy and I'd love to be a police officer in a world where the bad guys never hit the good guy, no matter how many bullets the shoot at him, but the cop always hits the mark first time, when returning fire.I don't hate this movie, like with Another 48 Hours, compared to the others, it's really weak, but on its own it's not that bad, it's certainly watchable, and I'm sure I'll watch worse Murphy movies as I go along.
Eddie Murphy was a symbol of the more flamboyant, uncompromising, politically incorrect and, above all, fun and entertaining 80's Era, but by the time the decade was over and the 90's arrived, this kind of actors and the peculiar genre of 80's lighthearted comedies started to go downhill in favor of a more matured, adult oriented comedies, but Eddie as a profitable mega-star with several hit movies and legions of fans, the studios tried everything they could to establish him for the new Era.Maybe his wisecracking screen personna didn't fit well in the general mood and tone of the 90's or the screenplays he started to receive were poor, the fact is that besides the Disney oriented "The Nutty Professor", which was a major hit everywhere, all of his movies were critically bashed or B.O. flops and "Beverly Hills Cop 3" was, deservedly, both.In the absence of Martin Brest who helmed the first movie and Tony Scott who directed the 'not so well received' sequel, John Landis was the perfect replacement for the director's chair, after all, he directed Murphy in two of his major hits: "Trading Places" ('83) & "Coming to America" ('88).The major problem was that at that time, Landis was far away from his glory days of comedy gold and Murphy was more interested in becoming the next action hero, following Wesley Snipes who also started on comedy, but was enjoying major success as a lead action star in such movies as "Passenger 57" ('92); "Demolition Man" ('93); "Rising Sun" ('93) or "Drop Zone" ('94).Murphy came back to the character of Axel Foley, playing him more mature & restrained and showing his dramatic side, as well trying to enhance him as a "man of action" too for the 90's decade, but he looks kind of lost in the role this time, like if the light he once had, switched off and he became a bit dull, playing it 'by the book' with more 'correctness' and less energy that didn't fit well in an once colorful, wisecracking and vivid character.
scene, when the viewer can glance the shades of the old Eddie Murphy playing Axel Foley) and some o.k. staged action sequences in the third act, but overall it's a bit depressing experience to follow, and even more if it was watched in a movie marathon of this franchise, after the brilliance of the first two....
A tough guy buddy cop film mixed in with a very large percentage of the film at the kiddie theme park with a bunch of people in big furry animal costumes and all that kiddie music was apparently a great idea for some reason to the writers of our beloved Axel Foley's third adventure through the cop/criminal world of L.A. I'm sure they initially wanted to make the theme park in this movie Disney Land but we're afraid of the legalities that would likely to have come out of it.
He was just such a lovable goof, which was semi-sad since he was a cop in the film, but I got past that part pretty much since he has been a goof from the first Beverly Hills Cop movie.Axel is back in business, in Detroit he gets into a once in a lifetime for a cop normally, type of shoot out with dirty business men, one who is an extremely super duper bad dude, who just won't stop killing people or stealing, why do you ask?
Beverly Hills cop three was a great end to a mildly funny trilogy, The Beverly Hills Series got Funnier over the years, and Eddy Murphy (The Nutty Professor) Is  great as Axel Foley.
Beverly Hills Cop III (1994) ** (out of 4) Incredibly disappointing third entry in the series has Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) running an operation on a car theft ring but soon he realizes it's much more than just this.
"Beverly Hills Cop III" opens up with Axel Foley(Eddie Murphy) and several other officers at a Detroit chop shop.
The story is very unoriginal and predictable, the script is pretty poor, John Landis gives one of his weaker directorial jobs, the film isn't as assuredly paced and neither Eddie Murphy or Judge Reinhold come across as likable this time around.
Eddie Murphy doesn't seem as funny in this movie and it doesn't even feel like a Beverly Hills Cop movie.
I rented this movie from my public library along with Beverly Hills cop 1 and 2.The first two were really great and when I was about to put it in I had a thought of 'how bad could it be'.Well the first 10 minutes were good but then all the comedy and good acting got taken away.I only became excited once when they had George Lucas has a cameo so thats not really saying much.
If you're a fan of the other Beverly Hills Cop movies and want to keep your blood pressure down, for the love of God, don't watch this film.
This film can barely muster up the energy to make you want to watch it until the end credits.The film, once again, concerns Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy), the wise-cracking street cop who was ejected from the streets of Detroit, where every bad neighborhood was dealt with the "hard knocks" way to Beverly Hills, where affluence and extravagance takes place.
The problem is that the theme park is patrolled around-the-clock by corrupt security officials and guards, aware of the illegal activity at hand, but uninterested in reporting it, and making Foley look like a delusional, mentally unstable man for thinking so (not hard, when you run around wailing a gun and shouting).The first film in the Beverly Hills Cop franchise was a big winner in my book, bearing frequent laughs due to Eddie Murphy's constant, zealous comic ability and delivery combined with Martin Brest's terrific direction, which blended the action and comedy together fittingly and excitingly.
It's not just that "Beverly Hills Cop III" is lifeless, but it's a bad Eddie Murphy movie, a bad John Landis movie, and everything that's supposed to be funny .
I was very disappointing seeing this : 1.First of All - It has a few jokes and very less comedy 2.The movie was like a Disneyland Creation 3.The most weak performance by Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop Series 4.The real action that can be called is in the beginning the other actions that were absolutely ridiculous 5.There were a few moments and a few stuff that made it a little bit more to watch but it's maybe the worst film that Eddie made .
Eddie Murphy and Judge Reinhold return again in this sequel, as Axel Foley follows the suspects of a car theft ring to(of course!) Beverly Hills, California, though also Los Angeles, where a counterfeiting ring seems to be operating within the confines of a famous amusement park.
The hilarious Eddie Murphy has a few succesful films, but he fails to capture an audience and follow his greatness after beverly hills cop.