Beverly Hills Cop

The 1988 sequel to one of the most successful movies of all time finds Eddie Murphy reprising his role as Detroit police detective Axel Foley, and once again playing a fish out of water as he tries to solve a series of heists in Beverly Hills that may be connected to the attempted murder of his friend, a Beverly Hills police captain (Ronny Cox). Constructed in a much flashier and faster-paced visual style than the first film, the song still remains the same as Foley tries to keep his job in Detroit while solving crimes for the Beverly Hills cops. Murphy again makes the most of culture shock for comic effect, and the easy rapport between Murphy and Billy (Judge Reinhold), now a cheerfully over the top Rambo-esque figure, is still the centerpiece of this series. While not the least bit original, director Tony Scott (Crimson Tide, Top Gun) puts his own stamp on this installment and keeps the action and the laughs coming. --Robert Lane

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

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Year:: 1984
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Sergeant Taggart:
We're more likely to believe him than some foul-mouthed jerk from out of town.

Axel Foley:
"Foul-mouthed"? F*** you!

Axel Foley:
Don't you think I realize what's going on here, miss? Who do you think I am, huh? Don't you think I know that if I was some hotshot from out of town that pulled inside here and you guys made a reservation mistake, I'd be the first one to get a room and I'd be upstairs relaxing right now. But I'm not some hotshot from out of town, I'm a small reporter from "Rolling Stone" magazine that's in town to do an exclusive interview with Michael Jackson that's gonna be picked up by every major magazine in the country. I was gonna call the article "Michael Jackson Is Sitting On Top of the World," but now I think I might as well just call it "Michael Jackson Can Sit On Top of the World Just As Long As He Doesn't Sit in the Beverly Palm Hotel 'Cause There's No N*ggers Allowed in There!"

Axel Foley:
Tell Victor that Ramon - -the fella he met about a week ago? - -tell him that Ramon went to the clinic today, and I found out that I have, um, herpes simplex 10, and I think Victor should go check himself out with his physician to make sure everything is fine before things start falling off on the man.

Axel Foley:
Disturbing the peace? I got thrown out of a window! What's the f***in' charge for getting pushed out of a moving car, huh? Jaywalking?

Police Chief Hubbard:
What's this man doing here?

Axel Foley:
Bleeding, sir.

Axel Foley:
If something happens to her...

Victor Maitland:
Hmmm...? I'm all ears.

Axel Foley:
I'll kill you.

Victor Maitland:
Really? That would be a neat trick.

Detective Rosewood:
Wow. You know, it says here that by the time the average American is fifty, he has five pounds of undigested red meat in his bowels.

Sergeant Taggart:
Why are you telling me this? What makes you think I have any interest in that at all?

Detective Rosewood:
Well, you eat a lot of red meat.

Police Chief Hubbard:
Is this man?