Beverly Hills Cop 3 was good, very underrated

i totally a agree with you there Beverly Hills Cop 3- 10/10
Beverly Hills Cop- 9/10
Beverly Hills Cop 2-8/10

I totally agree.

Giving these movies a 10 is a joke.

How old are you? Seven?

Honestly, I don't mean to insult you, but if you rate Beverly Hills Cop 3 a 10 then I don't really know how you would rate Die Hard 1, 2 and 4 as well as Mad Max and the first three Leathal Weapon movies as well as Pulp Fiction.

I mean seriously. You'd have to give Pulp Fiction a 10 also and what does that leave you with? BHC 3 and Pulp Fiction both a 10?

That's ridiculous.

If you just compare the three movies against themselves then it's ok I guess. Because you could then say BHC 3 is a 1 and Pulp Fiction is a 10, with BHC 2 being a 0.8 in comparison.

But otherwise... wow... just wow.

I could only accept this scale if those three movies were the only ones you've seen in your life.

I mean have you ever heard of Star Wars? The Incredibles? The Untouchables? Shawshank Redemption? The Godfather?

This is like measuring greatness with a scale so tiny you can't read the markings.

I saw all 3 movies during their first run in the theater. Part 1 and 2 were really funny and entertaining. The Jokes didn't seem forced.

I remember I was very excited about seeing part 3 and after seeing it I was trying to find things that I liked about it, but couldn't. Till this day, I've only seen part 3 twice. Once in the theater, and then again on home video. What lacked in part 3 was Eddie Murphy's whit and wise cracks. Jokes all seemed forced.

I've got a feeling part 4 is going to be the same.



I wanna see the 80's Eddie Murphy.

You people all apparently are fools, thinking an absolute GARBAGE movie is anything remotely close to decent. This movie is a TURKEY, and there is no way around that.

I see you comparing it to movies like Die Hard and others, which are indeed fun movies to watch, but also in the end are moronic, written by idiots who have to reach to the preposterous in order to entertain--and good moviemakers shouldn't have to do that.

For an example, I would give you the idiotic notion in Die Hard that just because John McClane is a cop, he gets to (in the '80s) board a plane to California with his handgun in a shoulder holster, on his person, while traveling on a personal vacation. BZZZT! Sorry, only in 2006 or so did cops even get anything close to the right to carry nationwide. In whatever longago year it was that Die Hard came out, cops couldn't carry outside of whatever state gave them their police authority. And forget about boarding a plane with the gun worn. Even today, even federal agents have to have paperwork and jump through hoops to be able to do that.

Now, on to Beverly Hills Cop. In the first movie, as well as the rest, Axel would have been BREAKING THE LAW, committing a felony in California, as well as federal laws, to take his handgun with him to do his unofficial police investigation in California. To do so and never be discovered, fine. But to do so and end up having to use the gun would be to end up charged with felony criminal possession of a firearm, as well as laws about crossing state lines with a prohibited firearm.

Now, about BHC3 -- WHEN SERGE IS SELLING THAT RIDICULOUS MULTI-TOOL RIFLE, WHY DIDN'T YOU ALL REALIZE HOW COMPLETELY MORONIC THAT WAS?! There is no such thing! And there never would be! And the idea that it was marketed to civilians as the "must-have" gun...! This movie really should be scoured from existence as a piece of putrid crap!!

To see the difference in quality and artistry, let's contrast the middle/development scenes of each film.

In BHC 1, Axel visits a strip club with two cops on duty, who are portrayed sympathetically despite Taggart having seriously punched Foley in the stomach when meeting him. To this point, the Detroit vs. Beverly Hills angle has been played up liberally, with "by the book" contrasted with Axl's freelancing style. The strip club scene begins with the obviously eccentric Billy getting into the swing of things, Axl almost seeming to *pretend* to have a good time, or to be batsh** crazy, as a sort of inside joke with himself -- and Taggart simply looking uncomfortable.

Suddenly Axl starts communicating with Taggart in a voice designed not to be noticed by Billy, as if Foley/Taggart are Billy's parents. Axl thinks somebody is making the joint. TREMENDOUS acting chops from both here. Axl is still dancing & smiling for the girls (and Billy) but his eyes are deathly. "No *beep* this time." Soon Axl masquerades and a drunk man who knows one of the villains, and the director combines the suspense & tension with more dark comedy as the gun is pulled and threats made -- "Phil! You've changed, man!" etc. Finally the scene ends with Taggart taking center stage in understated, a**-kicking fashion.

In the expository & developmental scenes of BHC 3, Axl visits a theme park (by himself with no interesting characters along) where he falls in love, discovers a secret underground network of offices, is detained & accosted by the chief bad guy, the cops, the FBI and security heads, gets into a gunfight, meets Walt Disney (who immediately befriends Axl and confides to him even though he's a complete stranger), saves two children in a Die-Hard style daring stunt, and grand-stands in a ham fisted manner while being threatened by two stock-character baddies. This all happens during one half hour of the movie.

3 is a perfectly funny movie for an afternoon. There are some clever bits with Judge Reinhold & with the Okey Dokey costume. But it does not belong in the same conversation with Beverly Hills Cop.