Simply A Masterpiece

Please don't spend money on this.

Absolutely Fantastic

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

This movie is just underrated. imo, this is better then 2. 2 was the weakest.

Beverly Hills Cop 3 (1994)Plot In A Paragraph: Axel Foley (Murphy) returns to Beverly Hills tracking a killer. I remember being excited when this was first announced, as Initially, the plot for this film would've concerned Foley, Rosewood, and Taggart going to London (This excites me a great deal, as this was back in my autograph hunting (celeb stalking) days, and I went to London frequently!!) to rescue Captain Bogomil, who was being held hostage during a International Police Convention. Sean Connery was going to play a Scotland Yard detective. However, pre-production dragged on so long that John Aston (Taggart) and Ronny Cox (Bogermill) had to drop out, due to other commitments . Taggart is mention having retired, but Bogermill is not mentioned. With Ashton being out, all his dialogue was given to a new character in John Flint (Hector Elizondo) he is Taggart in every way but name. His character has no point or purpose. It makes zero sense for him to get so involved in Axel being there. Personally they should have wrote him out, and left as Foley & Rosewood. The movie is uneven. Despite having several F-Bombs, it's very tame!! The violence is seriously toned down, and not very dramatic or exciting. 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. Reinhold does what Reinhold does, Elizondo has a thankless task replacing Taggart, John Saxon is as reliable as always Theresa Randle looks gorgeous whilst Timothy Calhart is in full pantomime villain mode. Random notes: My dvd is cut!! When he is talking to the widow. He says "His last words were about you" and the widow replies "That does not sound like him" before he reveals what the real last words were. I've not seen the movie since the cinema, but I recall him telling her a lie about his last words "Tell my wife I always loved her" type of thing!! 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. Beverly Hills Cop 3 became the second Murphy movie in a row to lose money at the domestic box office, as it grossed $42 million (against a budget of $55 million) at the box office to end 1994, the 34th highest grossing movie of the year.

Everyone knows Eddie Murphy and knows his first two BH films. Everyone knows Steven Segal or should know many of his films if you're a martial arts fanatic. Segal isn't a trained actor, not like any of these films, yet I can name a couple movies he did like Half Past Dead for example where the action and the storyline was more interesting than this flop.Beverly Hills Cop 1 & 2 were solid in wise ass comedy and action packed to the mill. This one had plenty of solid action, a few unreal moments but not overly done throughout the film, but it lacked the luster of the other films.The stage direction given to the film and the actors were total crap. Theresa Rhandle is a damn good actress. She proved that in Bad Boys I & II, but what she had to work with in her character here didn't pan out. It seemed more forced for her to be in the film other than being an attractive amusement park ride operator and public relations employee with the hots for Foley.Hector Elizondo's role, Detective Flint - for a guy who been on the force for over 2 decades and a personal friend to Ellis DeWald, there should have been certainly a real struggle there. Flint was put in to play a stronger character with an internal debate, but the writers and Elizondo didn't get the job done. I would wrote a few more scenes there between DeWald and Elizondo to make it more complicated too.DeWald, Tim Carhart, had a decent presence as the bad guy, but he looked more like a con man and less like a psychotic killer. More ruthlessness would have been recommended. He needed to show more of a betrayal between him & his partners, Uncle Dave, & Flint and it wasn't there. Not much depth there.Eddie Murphy's girly laugh belongs more in The Nutty Professor. I'm sure he knew that, but they still had him act like a silly childish man when he confronts DeWald at the Private Security Awards Banquet. That was plain buffoon and wasn't necessary. He would have been better acting like a hysterical S.O.B. as he did when he confronted Dent in BHII.

According to John Landis, Murphy was very depressed during filming and his $15 million paycheck certainly didn't cheer him up, as he's pretty catatonic with the occasional smirk and animated laugh he does so well. The script has all the problems of budget cutbacks and pencil stabs from middling executives and producers. The screenplay is written around one lame location, which just speaks volumes on how bereft of ideas and lazy this film is. Once Axel arrives at the theme park, we are introduced to evil security guards, who I hope get a bit more than minimum wage for their commitment to being extra evil - especially when they cause a ferris wheel to go out of control, which becomes a boring story detour for a few minutes to flatly film Murphy's stunt double jumping around the ferris wheel to save some kids. After years of misbehaving on film sets and staring in one bomb after another, Judge Reinhold left Hollywood with his tail between his legs, only to resurface in this stinker. After apologizing for his arrogance to the industry that spit him out, Judge seems like the only cast member excited to be in the film - and awake for that matter. The story plays out like a sitcom and even though there is profanity, this feels like kids stuff. If you catch this edited on network TV, you would mistake it for a family film. The villain is as lame as a generic baddie can get and his motivation even more cartoonish. The congratulatory end, complete with applause, confetti and a freeze frame is the nadir of the franchise.