Beverly Hills Cop II

Beverly Hills Cop II is a 1987 action-comedy film, which was directed by Tony Scott. It is the sequel to Beverly Hills Cop from 1984. The film was released to the cinemas in the USA on 20 May 1987.Beverly Hills Cop at Box Office Mojo
== Plot ==
Three years after killing Victor Maitland, Detective Axel Foley is working undercover on a credit card fraud case in Detroit. At the same time, Beverly Hills Police Department Captain Andrew Bogomil, Detective Billy Rosewood, and Sergeant John Taggart investigate the "Alphabet Crimes", a series of mostly high-end-store robberies distinguished by the monogrammed envelopes with an alphabetical sequence that the assailants leave at the scene. Complicating matters is the new political state of the BHPD, headed by new Police Chief Harold Lutz, who is incompetent, egotistical, verbally abusive, and doing everything he can to stay on Mayor Ted Egan's good side. Furious when Rosewood calls the FBI to help solve the case, Lutz holds Bogomil responsible as commanding officer and suspends him, despite Bogomil's efforts to convince the chief that Rosewood was only following a hunch. Lutz also punishes Taggart and Rosewood by placing them on traffic duty.
On the way home, Bogomil is shot and injured by Karla Fry, the chief enforcer of Maxwell Dent, who is secretly the mastermind behind the Alphabet Crimes. Hearing about the shooting on a news report, Axel secretly abandons his current undercover duties and immediately flies out to Beverly Hills to investigate Bogomil's shooting alongside Taggart and Rosewood.
Posing as an undercover FBI agent to get past Lutz with the aid of Detective Jeffrey Friedman, his partner at Detroit Police Department, Axel soon makes the connection between the robberies and Dent. He first finds out that the ammunition fired at one of the robberies was made by a gunsmith for Charles Cain, the manager of a gun club owned by Dent. Axel has Bogomil's daughter Jan use her connections as an insurance agent to find out about Dent's financial dealings. Dent is robbing his own businesses on purpose to finance firearms transactions with an arms dealer named Nikos Thomopolis, and is discreetly using Cain as the front man for his operations; Bogomil was shot because his investigation was on the correct track.
Having foiled an attempted robbery at a bank depot, Axel tricks Dent's accountant Sidney Bernstein into letting him use his computer and discovers Dent and Karla are planning to leave the country. Axel also learns from Jan that all of Dent's businesses have had their insurance coverage canceled and are about to go bankrupt—except his racetrack. Hurrying to the racetrack, Axel solves the latest riddle sent to the police, and is convinced that this riddle was made easily solvable to implicate Cain as the Alphabet Bandit and throw the authorities off Dent's trail.
The trio arrive too late to prevent the robbery and find Cain, shot by Karla, among those killed. While Lutz announces publicly that the Alphabet Crimes have been solved, Axel notices some red mud at the stables, which leads him, Taggart, and Rosewood to Dent's oil field, where Dent is making his final arms deal with Thomopolis. The three get into a shootout with everyone involved in the deal and manage to destroy the trucks carrying the shipments with explosives. Dent confronts Axel in the warehouse, but Axel gets distracted by one of Dent's henchmen on the roof above him and Dent gets away. Dent then crashes through the wall in his car and Axel kills Dent by shooting him through the windshield. The car hits Axel and goes down a hill, erupting in flames. Karla appears and is about to kill Axel but is shot and killed by Taggart.
Just as the last criminals are about to flee, the police back-up arrive and apprehend Thomopolis and the remainder of Dent's gang. Lutz and Mayor Egan arrive as well; Lutz is furious at Rosewood and Taggart for their insubordination, but the pair frustratedly stand up to Lutz and prove that Dent was the real Alphabet Bandit and that his crimes were about the arms deal. They also manage to convince Mayor Egan of Lutz's incompetence, prompting him to fire Lutz for jeopardizing the investigation and his abusive attitude towards his men. Mayor Egan also thanks the trio for solving the case.
Following his recovery, Bogomil is chosen by Mayor Egan to replace Lutz as the new Police Chief. As Axel prepares to return to Detroit, Mayor Egan calls Inspector Todd to thank him for allowing Axel to assist the BHPD, prompting Todd to chew him out over the phone and ordering Axel to return to Detroit for his real police job.
== Cast ==
* Eddie Murphy as Detective Axel Foley
* Judge Reinhold as Detective Billy Rosewood
* Jürgen Prochnow as Maxwell Dent
* Ronny Cox as Captain Andrew Bogomil
* John Ashton as Sergeant John Taggart
* Brigitte Nielsen as Karla Fry
* Allen Garfield as Chief Harold Lutz
* Dean Stockwell as Charles Cain
* Gil Hill as Inspector Douglas Todd
* Gilbert Gottfried as Sidney Bernstein
* Paul Reiser as Detective Jeffrey Friedman
* Brian O'Connor as Detective Biddle
* Paul Guilfoyle as Nikos Thomopolis
* Robert Ridgely as Mayor Ted Egan
* Alice Adair as Jan Bogomil
* Glenn Withrow as Willie
* Tom Bower as Russ Fielding
* Hugh Hefner as Himself
* Frank Pesce as Carlotta
* Chris Rock as Parking Valet
* Valerie Wildman as Gun Club Receptionist
* Robert Pastorelli as Vinnie
* Tommy 'Tiny' Lister as Orvis
* John Hostetter as Stiles
* Todd Susman as the master builder
==References==
Category:1987 films
Category:Paramount films
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Category:Rated R
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Category:Films starring Eddie Murphy
Category:Films starring Judge Reinhold