Beverly Hills Cop III hasn't aged great and remains the weakest of the original trilogy of Eddie Murphy movies.
The first two Beverly Hills Cop movies are excellent, even if part two didn’t have that same originality and tightly written script, it was entertaining, but that’s probably where they should have stopped.
They ended up with a script by Steven E. de Souza , who wrote Die Hard and presented the idea for Beverly Hills Cop III as “,” which it failed at. Multiple people were brought in to massage this screenplay, causing a multitude of rewrites, with most of the focus on tweaking the comedic elements and trying to make the jokes appear more natural.
Although most of the actors involved were very talented, part of the problem came in giving Foley a weak set of bad guys. There were several, and none of them felt threatening without outnumbering our hero, only standing out while teasing Foley about his dead boss. Murphy himself wasn’t on top of his game either.
Much of the comedy is put on the other actors, or it feels like they are gags happening to Foley rather than him being at the head of them. The perfect gauge of this might be the lines from the dying Inspector Todd or the segment where Axel wears the elephant suit. There’s more slapstick, characters working with simple props, such as Billy hiding behind the leaves or hitting Flint with the door and Axel using a dead guard like a puppet.
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