Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Hilarious the whole way through. Enaging and funny without being over the top cheesy.

Continuing my plan to watch every Eddie Murphy movie in order, I come to the first sequel of his career Beverly Hills Cop 2Plot In A Paragraph: Alex Foley (Murphy) returns to Beverly Hills to help track down the Alphabet Bandit.Much more action orientated than its predecessor, sadly they forgot to add the jokes. Surprising since Murphy has a writing credit. This sequel could have been wrote when Sly Stallone was still attached to the first movie. There are amusingly a few nods to him in this movie.Whilst entertaining and fun enough, my main problem with this movie is Murphy is really annoying at times. This is Foley from the first movie speeded up x 10, with the volume at maximum!! He is an outright jerk at times. All he seems to do is shout at people (the construction workers, the secretary at the gun club, the door man at the strip club, the secretary at the playboy mansion) to get his own way. In the first movie, Murphy loudly played the race card to get a room at an exclusive Beverly Hills hotel, this time, he cons some construction, whose foreman probably lost his job over it. Considering he gave that address to the bad guys at the gun club, the owners were lucky it was not shot up!! The stupid scene with the secretary and the bag of vitamins, his loud under cover character, the stupid Johnny Whishbone, I need to add, all these worked for me back in the day, and I thought they were funny!! Less so 30 years later. Amazingly Murphy isn't the most annoying person in this movie!! That goes to Gilbert Gottfied!! Man do I hate that guy!! He is one irritating dude!! Of the other cast Reinhold and Ashton are clearly having fun and I don't think Bridgette Nielsen has looked hotter in a movie, she is the most interesting villain in this movie, whilst Juergen Prochnow is weak, Dean Stockwell (Who I love as Al in Quantum Leap) does not make a convincing bad guy either. An entertaining enough action movie, but not a great sequel to a classic movie Audiences turned out in droves as Beverly Hills Cop 2 grossed $158 million at the domestic box office (only Fatal Attraction and 3 Men & A Baby grossed more) to finish 1987 the 3rd highest grossing movie of the year.

After his friend "Andrew Bogomil" (Ronny Cox) is shot and critically injured in the line-of-duty in Beverly Hills, Detroit detective "Axle Foley" (Eddie Murphy) rushes to Los Angeles to help out in the investigation. Naturally, since he is out of his jurisdiction and has no authority to investigate this case he has to proceed under false pretenses and to do that he needs his friends "John Taggert" (John Ashton) and "Billy Rosewood" (Judge Reinhold) who happen to be Beverly Hills cops but also happen to be in deep trouble with their boss even before Axle's unexpected arrival. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that, while this isn't necessarily a bad film, it suffers in comparison to its predecessor as a certain percentage of the comedy was simply recycled from the original movie. Likewise, there were some scenes which were unnecessarily vulgar as well. But again, it still managed to be fairly entertaining all things considered and I have rated it accordingly. Average.

The original was one of the biggest films of 1984, and Simpson and Bruckheimer had a massive hit the year before with Scott's Top Gun, so this was fool proof, and only an idiot wouldn't green light the sequel, so it's more of the same, but bigger in every sense, but it's lost a little bit of the first films soul.Ronny Cox only comes back for a cameo, so he gets shot at the beginning, and this prompts Foley to return to Beverly Hills. He re-teams with Taggart and Rosewood, who isn't as timid as he was in the first film, and has a penchant for weapons, because this would make his character funnier, right?Obviously there is a sub plot involving gun running, Jurgen Prochnow, Bridgitte Nielsen and alphabets, so it's down to Foley to wisecrack his way to solving the crimes.This film could have just been Murphy running along the beach, swearing every few minutes and laughing, and it still would have been a huge hit, because every once in a while, the planets align, and Hollywood could make a critic and crowd proof movie.This was in instance of that. Scott was huge, he made Cruise a star. Simpson and Bruckhiemer did the same, Murphy was the biggest thing in Hollywood, and the original was massive.Nothing could go wrong.It's not brilliant by any means, in fact, sometimes the film seems downright lazy, more or less copying set pieces from the original, like the final act and the set piece where Foley pretends to be someone else in order to gain access to somewhere.But its flashy, sometimes funny, and it's always sunny in Beverly Hills, and you cannot help but love the infectious laugh.You realise after an hour just how bland it is compared to the original, but you'll enjoy it never the less.