betty dalton Beverly Hills Cop was one of the biggest hits of the eighties and launched the carreer of Eddie Murphy.Just have to play 3 notes of the soundtrack to any adult and everybody recognizes the tune that accompanies this delightful whodunnit detective. Watching it again after 30 years I am surprised how slow the tempo of the scenes are. Just amazing to compare an action movie from the eighties to one from today, because nowadays you have scenes that are cut every 5 seconds or less. In action sequences the editing is so fast that you can barely see what it is happpening, often covering up a lack of good stunts. But Beverly Hills Cop takes its time with stretched out scenes with natural acting. Really refreshing. Beverly Hills Cop is a whodunnit dectective story about a cop (Eddie Murhpy) who is investigating the murder of his friend. Need not know more about the story. It is all about the mess Eddie Murphy gets himself into when he crosses the line and starts an illegal investigation. It is not a straight comedy, because there are very few jokes. But the characters are so real life like that the portrayal of the cops clumsiness is the biggest fun part of this movie. Because man oh man do the cops in this movie mess things up. Any adult would love to see it again. But is it still funny and fast enough for todays youth? If you like comedy action then you should try it out, because we are talking about a classic here. An Eddie Murphy classic. This man has its own language. You just gotta love this man!

ibrarsiddiqi If you've never seen this film at all or you happen to be a fan of both the eighties and Eddie Murphy's sense of humour then I can guarantee a great evening. The comedy is brash but it goes with the territory, generally it's a well made film with a great plot.Eddie stars as a maverick cop called Axel Foley whose antics test the department in particular, commanding officer Inspector Todd after a sting operation goes badly wrong. Axel meets childhood friend Mikey Tandino and they go for a drink for old time's sake. Things go wrong when returning to Axel's apartment when Mikey is murdered whilst he(Axel) is knocked unconscious. Inspector Todd sympathetically gives Axel time off and it's not long when Axel heads to Beverley Hills to track Mikey's killers and then that's when the fun starts...

Paul Magne Haakonsen "Beverly Hills Cop" is a classic movie in its own right, and it is one of those movie that everyone has seen. And it is a very entertaining movie that mixes comedy, action and a good storyline quite well.The story is about Axel Foley (played by Eddie Murphy), a police officer whose friend is murdered in Detroit, and ends up in Beverly Hills to look into the murder of his friend. He gets tangled in with the Beverly Hills police department and is soon deep in trouble as his snooping around is not appreciated.Story-wise "Beverly Hills Cop" is greatly paced and actually quite nicely built up and has a very good flow to it. The story has a lot of weight to it, and it is the type of movie that you can watch again and again.And lets not forget about the distinctive music score and soundtrack that everyone is familiar with.The movie has a great cast of talents to it, that really do great jobs with their given roles and characters. There is especially a great chemistry between Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold and John Ashton.A great and fun movie that never gets old.

ivo-cobra8 Beverly Hills Cop (1984) is my favorite childhood movie. It is one of the best Action Films in the 80's I have seen. I don't care if it is written comedy in the genre. It is humor in this film but I am considering as a classic Action Film. It is definitely Eddie Murphy's best film. Film about Beverly Hills Cop and Cobra will not be today Action films like are this. I am really disappointed with how action films are turning today. Beverly hills Cop is a legendary film. A film that I will always cherish and I will never get tired of it. I love this movie to death. Great job reviewing one of the best classic action films ever.This is my favorite film and one of the best classic action films from the 80's of all time. Yes I grew up with this film, that always fascinated me how this film is fascinated, awesome, brilliant and very funny. Eddie Murphy kick's ass!!! A freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills. Beverly Hills Cop is a movie made successful entirely on the performance of its star. The film is fairly shallow when it comes right down to it -- really, it's a whole lot of talk, a fair bit of comedy, and only a little bit of action -- but Star Eddie Murphy's (48 Hrs.) charisma and complete mastery of his character is what makes Director Martin Brest's (Midnight Run) movie a fan-favorite success. Outside of Murphy, Beverly Hills Cop is as routine as routine gets; a standard cops-and-robbers plot, no mystery, and point-and-shoot and in-the-raw direction make for an otherwise dull picture, but Murphy saves the film from its own shortcomings with so much flair and genuine excitement that this might be the all-time best of any of the "actor-singlehandedly-makes-the-movie" movies. Beverly Hills Cop is the very definition of a "star vehicle," a movie that's nothing without its lead -- this specific lead at that -- but with him? It's a movie that's always masking its mistakes behind Murphy's big smile and quick-to-the-punch comic style and timing that he's got going on no matter the time, place, or circumstances in the story, selling the character and his actions with a startling effortlessness that transforms him into Axel Foley in every scene. Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) is a slick, smooth-talking Detroit detective who's disobedience and disregard for procedure has once again landed him in hot water with his Chief, and a promising career is on the brink of disintegration. Axel Foley is Eddie Murphy's best role that made him in to a star today. Beverly Hills Cop is a 1984 American action comedy film directed by Martin Brest and starring Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley, a street-smart Detroit cop who heads to Beverly Hills, California to solve the murder of his best friend. Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Ronny Cox, Lisa Eilbacher, Steven Berkoff and Jonathan Banks appear in supporting roles.This first film in the Beverly Hills Cop series shot Murphy to international stardom, won the People's Choice Award for "Favorite Motion Picture", was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical, and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) in 1985. It earned $234 million at the North American domestic box office, making it the highest-grossing 1984 film in the U.S.Beverly Hills Cop is always on the precipice of disaster, the picture teetering on the edge but always pulled back from the brink by Murphy's contagious enthusiasm and pure comic timing. About half the film, it seems, is constructed almost exclusively of scenes featuring Murphy's character being chewed out for his actions that take place in the other half of the film. Whether he's defending himself in front of his superiors or defending his life on the streets of Detroit and Beverly Hills, Murphy consistently and perfectly juggles the film's requirements for action (as sparse as the action may be) with what is almost always subtle but extraordinarily effective humor that always flows from the story and feels genuinely off-the-cuff, rather than force-fed into the plot just to try and squeeze out a laugh from its audience. It's the film's sense of real, genuine storytelling, then, that outside of Murphy, is its greatest asset. The film is awfully standard, yes, but it's never mechanical, instead playing as completely organic. The interplay between characters seems perfectly natural, as does the humor, and it's all thanks to Murphy's uncanny ability to carry the movie with so much natural swagger and charm that Beverly Hills Cop is so much fun in spite of what would otherwise be a forgettable loser of a movie. The heat is on in this fast paced action-comedy starring Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley, a street smart Detroit cop tracking down his best friend's killer in Beverly Hills. Axel quickly learns that his wild style doesn't fit in with the Beverly Hills Police Department, which assigns two officers (Judge Reinhold and John Ashton) to make sure things don't get out of hand. Dragging the stuffy detectives along for the ride, Axel smashes through a huge culture clash in his hilarious, high-speed pursuit of justice. Featuring cameos by Paul Reiser, Bronson Pinchot and Damon Wayans, Beverly Hills Cop is an exhilarating sidesplitting adventure!I love this film, it is one of the funniest movies that I've ever seen. Eddie Murphy rocks the house.