Beverly Hills Cop II

"Axel Foley is back. Back where he doesn't belong."

1987 1h 43m EN

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★6.5TMDB · 2,931

ActionComedyCrime

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Axel Foley returns to the land of sunshine and palm trees to investigate the near-fatal shooting of police Captain Andrew Bogomil. With the help of Sgt. Taggart and Det. Rosewood, they soon uncover that the shooting is associated with a series of "alphabet" robberies masterminded by a heartless weapons kingpin—and the chase is on.

“Axel Foley is back. Back where he doesn't belong.”

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Cast

Eddie Murphy
Axel Foley
Judge Reinhold
Billy Rosewood
John Ashton
John Taggart
Jürgen Prochnow
Maxwell Dent
Ronny Cox
Andrew Bogomil
Brigitte Nielsen
Karla Fry
Allen Garfield
Harold Lutz
Dean Stockwell
Chip Cain

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Tony Scott
Writers: Eddie Murphy, Larry Ferguson, Robert D. Wachs
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Grossed $300M — a 10.7× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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ERA

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39 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Beverly Hills Cop Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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CAST

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210+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Tony Scott, shot by Jeffrey L. Kimball. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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ERA

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Original score by Harold Faltermeyer. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Chris Lebenzon shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

ERA

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Eddie Murphy and Judge Reinhold and John Ashton carry the top of the cast.

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The take

Tony Scott directs. Jeffrey L. Kimball behind the camera. Harold Faltermeyer scores. Chris Lebenzon cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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Things worth knowing

1Grossed $300M — a 10.7× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
239 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Part of the "Beverly Hills Cop Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4210+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
5Directed by Tony Scott, shot by Jeffrey L. Kimball. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Harold Faltermeyer. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Chris Lebenzon shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Eddie Murphy and Judge Reinhold and John Ashton carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "Axel Foley is back. Back where he doesn't belong.".
10IMDB entry: tt0092644 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 27 themes, including "police", "arms smuggling", "intensive care", "undercover".

The technical file

Cinematography: Jeffrey L. Kimball
Original score: Harold Faltermeyer
Editing: Chris Lebenzon
Production design: Ken Davis
Makeup / hair: Dorothea Long
Sound: Kevin O'Connell
Stunt coordinator: Alan Oliney
Runtime: 103 min · 1h 43m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $28,000,000
Box office: $299,965,036
Return: 1071% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)

Awards

Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Movie
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song

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Part of

Beverly Hills Cop Collection

Beverly Hills Cop is a series of action-comedy films starring Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley, a street-smart Detroit cop who travels to Beverly Hills, California to investigate crimes out of his jurisdiction, and help his friends, local detectives Rosewood and Taggart, solve crimes.

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JPV8522020-01-10
★ 7/10
Entertaining enough sequel isn't as sharp as the original and some parts felt like Murphy's stand-up routine, and while the plot itself was weak, did enjoy the on-screen friendships between Murphy, Reinhold and Ashton. 3.5/5
CinemaSerf2023-02-26
★ 6/10
Well I suppose a sequel to the 1984 success was inevitable, and to be fair Tony Scott has managed to re-assemble the cast from the first film and recruit Jürgen Prochnow ("Dent") to adopt the Steven Berkoff role as baddie-in-chief. The rest of this is pretty much a straight copy of the original as Eddie Murphy's "Foley" reunites with "Ashton" (John Taggart) and "Rosewood" (Judge Reinhold) to get to the bottom of an assassination attempt on their beloved "Bogomil" (Ronny Cox) after he had been suspended for failing to make inroads into the media-dominating "alphabet crimes". What now ensues is really a vehicle for the star and his quick-mouth. The others continue to deliver well as foils for his antics, though this time they are more active participants and less unwilling victims! The plot is thin, but that doesn't matter - Prochnow offers just about enough menace and there are still plenty of perilous scenarios for them to, obviously, get trapped into and then escape from! It clearly isn't as fresh now, the characters are regurgitating themselves to some extent, but as sequels go this one retains much of the character and joie de vivre of the fish-out-of-water aspects that worked well before. It's not great, but it's an easy and entertaining film to watch.