It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

1. Terrible scripting. Choppy editing (I could do better with a VHS MACHINE). This made the acting seem 2-dimensional and uninspired. That said, the script and screenplay were a mess, with stilted dialogue and humor-intended situations where they all but used a laugh track on punchline. It was NOT funny. Really- not funny at all. Not believable. For example, if a cop SEES someone murder a person, and the murderer later even openly confesses to that cop - why would the cop then have to prove it? What's left to prove?? THE COP IS AN EYEWITNESS. AN EYEWITNESS!! (2) machine guns are useless in this movie; WHO COULD MISS WITH A MACHINE GUN?!? Yet everyone does- CONSTANTLY. People do things in this movie that defy logic, reality, or both. Bad guys shoot people in public (in the open) but they use a suppressor, so nobody notices (SERIOUSLY?!?). A cop is attacked, it's filmed; but when they play it back its been terribly edited and minutes removed; yet still this proves nobody attacked him ? A guy turns a carnival ride off and on, which sends it into meltdown, cables break, and it falls apart. Ummm. No. I loved Bev Cop I (I rated it 9/10). This was not just disappointing, it was pathetic. Not worth the electricity to watch it free on TV. (Oh, and it was not funny.).

Once again, Axel's back in Beverly Hills, a place that he may as well just move to since he's always doing his job there instead of where he actually should be. And again, he's there to investigate a fatal attack on a friend of his. Taggert and Bogomil are nowhere to be seen, which is a shame because those two characters were great, and the only actors to reprise their roles for this installment were Eddie Murphy himself as Axel, Gil Hill as the always angry, always loud-but-somehow-not- obnoxious Inspector G. Douglas Todd, and Judge Reinhold as Rosewood.Despite these absences, the movie works surprisingly well on its own, though even at its best, it's the worst in the trilogy. But that's not to say this movie isn't fun, because it is. It's understandable why fans would hate this movie, and honestly I'd expected to hate it too, but I wasn't disappointed at all.Axel is in Beverly Hills, once again against orders from the cops in Detroit AND Beverly Hills, to investigate the murderer of his now-dead superior officer, which leads him to Wonder World. Wonder World is like a discount Disneyland that serves as a cover for a counterfeiting operation.It's the most generic and flawed of the three, and it stays true to the formula the first two followed without being bold enough to try something different, but for what it is, it's still enjoyable and doesn't deserve as much hate as people have thrown at it since its release.Give it a shot. It's a love it or hate it thing, I guess. I liked it.

Eddie Murphy was in desperate need of a hit after a string of decidedly dodgy movie (Boomerang was but a blip in an ever descending slide for Murphy) so what else could he do, but go back to his career defining role?While it wasn't the hit he or the studio wanted it to be, it's still an entertaining piece of fluff, and the best thing he'd done since Coming to America.Inspector Todd gets killed by a smarmy bloke, and Foley ends up in B.H yet again, to exact revenge on the man who killed his Boss, by arresting him for some dastardly crime.So it's an excuse for Murphy to swear, and get into scrapes and to have lots of famous directors have cameos for some very bizarre reason.It's not a brilliant movie by any means, but it tries hard not to look like a blatant cash in of one of the most iconic movies of the eighties. Murphy is as good as ever, and its nice to see familiar faces yet again, even though it feels somewhat forced.Set pieces are good, but way over the top, and are lacking in the Simpson/Bruckheimer sheen that made the other movies stand out so much.All in all, its a cash in, no other way to put it, but at least it entertains, even if it does have a really bizarre theme park rescue in it, and George Lucas wearing a cool jumper.

A sequel to "Beverly Hills Cop" is tricky. Our hero is always 2,000 miles away from the title setting, and it takes a suspicious death to get him out to the coast. And they were pushing it with the second movie. But here's a movie with a completely different (and awkward) tone from the first two films. "III" feels surprisingly more family-friendly (despite the F-bombs) with Eddie Murphy running amok in a faux- Disneyland theme park. There's lots of shooting and profanity, but none of the edge this series is known for. Not only that, but Murphy (despite getting to play superhero while saving some kids from a park ride) seems oddly listless this time around. It's hard not to laugh at least once during an Eddie movie, but I don't think I did once, here. It's an array of jokes that fall flat. 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 . . . isn't.4/10