I don't know what I expected when I started watching this movie, but I was definitely let down by miles. First of all the dialogue is so bad and cheese, that it sometimes physically hurt to watch. The killing in this movie just takes away from the comedy , and believe me there is loads of killing it. Another negative factor is, that for some unexplainable reason someone thought it was a good idea to make every flame in this movie a bright blue colour, which sometimes really hurts while watching in a dark room. That being said there are some scenes that I found genuinely funny, although most of the time this was unintentional like in action scenes or scenes that where supposed to be serious and dramatic.

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.

Beverly Hills Cop III is littered with a lack of inspiration and excitement when, considering its genre, it should be overflowing with those attributes. It's so uninspired and redundant that it actually makes me recall its unremarkable but not wholly irredeemable predecessor with a certain fondness. Its predecessor suffered from a lack of interest in trying anything new with its material, but at least it featured a strong performance by Eddie Murphy and some engaging direction by Tony Scott. This film can barely muster up the energy to make you want to watch it until the end credits.The film, once again, concerns Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy), the wise-cracking street cop who was ejected from the streets of Detroit, where every bad neighborhood was dealt with the "hard knocks" way to Beverly Hills, where affluence and extravagance takes place. But even in the wealthy area comes crime, as we learn about a band of counterfeiters who are rampantly printing money and are also responsible for the murder of Foley's boss. With his best friend and partner Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) by his side at all times, Axel begins scoping out a local theme park by the name of Wonder World, which is the likely source for this criminal activity. The problem is that the theme park is patrolled around-the-clock by corrupt security officials and guards, aware of the illegal activity at hand, but uninterested in reporting it, and making Foley look like a delusional, mentally unstable man for thinking so (not hard, when you run around wailing a gun and shouting).The first film in the Beverly Hills Cop franchise was a big winner in my book, bearing frequent laughs due to Eddie Murphy's constant, zealous comic ability and delivery combined with Martin Brest's terrific direction, which blended the action and comedy together fittingly and excitingly. The sequel, on the other hand, had some considerable charm, given Murphy was still on top of his game and changing directors from Brest to Tony Scott wasn't a bad move, given Scott's incredible ability at action setpieces, however, the film had a frustrating inertness when it came to wanting to try something new and different.With the third film, all energy and hope is lost, starting with a criminal move by writer Steven E. de Souza to undermine Murphy's comedic talent, giving him a more traditionalist, interchangeable cop persona rather than one that has ability to excite or provide substantial comedy. Murphy looks tired and ferociously unamused with the film, as if de Souza wrote the Beverly Hills Cop III in a vindictive manner, not giving any thought to what made the first two films click so well to even warrant the creation of a third film. In addition, the action just isn't there from a directorial standpoint, which is shocking considering John Landis was the man behind the camera, the same man who made The Blues Brothers such a powerhouse flick in terms of its action setpieces.It's as if you took Hollywood's two most promising names at the time and made them do something they would normally do in such a lackadaisical manner. In addition, the time period doesn't feel right either. Shot ten years after the first film kickstarted this franchise in 1984, Beverly Hills Cop III feels stuck in the wrong era, as the famous theme song "Axel F" begins to take on aggravating, repetitive heights after blending so well with the cheesy, eighties aesthetic in the first two films. Not to mention, cheesy eighties cop films were a staple, where most nineties films of the same genre feel like cloying ripoffs or inferior distractions from the abundance of capable ones we once witnessed.There's one great scene in Beverly Hills Cop III, which takes place in Wonder World after a gigantic, complex roller-coaster ride stopped working due to park/security incompetence. Foley has to resort to saving two young children, stuck on the ride, about to fall to their deaths by almost cheating death, climbing all over the ride in every which way. The scene is suspenseful and works, so much so, that I would've rather seen Murphy rescue the other ten, eleven, or twelve people on the ride for the remaining hour or so than endure what mediocrity Beverly Hills Cop III threw at me.Starring: Eddie Murphy and Judge Reinhold. Directed by: John Landis.

A sequel to "Beverly Hills Cop" is tricky. Our hero is always 2,000 miles away from the title setting, and it takes a suspicious death to get him out to the coast. And they were pushing it with the second movie. But here's a movie with a completely different (and awkward) tone from the first two films. "III" feels surprisingly more family-friendly (despite the F-bombs) with Eddie Murphy running amok in a faux- Disneyland theme park. There's lots of shooting and profanity, but none of the edge this series is known for. Not only that, but Murphy (despite getting to play superhero while saving some kids from a park ride) seems oddly listless this time around. It's hard not to laugh at least once during an Eddie movie, but I don't think I did once, here. It's an array of jokes that fall flat. It's not just that "Beverly Hills Cop III" is lifeless, but it's a bad Eddie Murphy movie, a bad John Landis movie, and everything that's supposed to be funny . . . isn't.4/10