recommended

Amateur movie with Big budget

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

The acting in this movie is really good.

This movie is just underrated. imo, this is better then 2. 2 was the weakest.

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.

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't say, this third film in the 'Beverly Hills Cop' series, was good, because it's clearly not, but it's not as bad, as people make it out to be. This movie directed by John Landis is a guilty pleasure of mine. I love the whole amusement park, idea with its unique location, action scene pieces & stunt work. It is pretty impressive at the time, even some of those sequences were ruin by bad background effects, trigger happy security guards and awful stunt dummies. I also love that, it was filmed in California's 'Great America' theme park & Universal Studios Hollywood. This film wasn't generic, like certain people, say it was. It was very weird to see, the inner working of a theme park, back then. I kinda dig that. Plus, the humor that comes with it, works, as it really did satire Disneyland, quite well. Add the fact, that the movie has famous fantasy directors cameos, throughout the park scenes like George Lucas, Joe Dante & Ray Harryhausen make it somewhat fun to watch. Yet, I do, wish the whole investigation part of the film was better. I didn't like how, the resourceful, street-smart, Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) didn't use, too much of his iconic clever ways to get in and out of trouble. It was too easy for him. The hero, solve it, way too quickly. Even, his help, comes, really out of the blue, like park attendant, Janice (Theresa Randle) Their whole love interest, with each other, really comes out of nowhere. It's so forced. Another problem, with this film, is the fact that it's no longer, a flesh fish-out-of-water story. It has become routine and formulaic. Like really, what are the odds that the same Detroit cop, would return to the same location, in hope of solving a murder, for three different cases. That part of the story has really become, so clichés, tiresome, and somewhat bland. During the script's early drafts, the film's plot was going to be somewhat new, with Foley, Det. Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold), Sgt. Taggart (John Ashton) and Det. Jeffrey Friedman (Paul Reiser) going to London to rescue Captain Bogomil (Ronny Cox) who was being held hostage by terrorists, during an International Police Convention. It would be nice to see, what that film would have been like. After all, I heard that the Axel-in-London idea would likely have, actors, Sean Connery or John Cleese played him, Scotland Yard counterpart. Even, a crossover film with Paul Hogan as Crocodile Dundee in New York City was up on the table. However, numerous problems such as scripting issues, like the concept being too close to the storyline of the Michael Douglas's 1989 film, 'Black Rain' and budgeting caused this script to scrap by producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, in order to do the much more expensive Wonder World plot. Original estimated at $55 million, production was temporarily shut down to allow the Paramount top brass the chance to get to grips with the film's spiraling budget. It soon become clear, that the film has really went over the budget, excess of $70 million. Of that budget, $15 million was Eddie Murphy's paycheck. To make it, much worst, pre-production to drag out to the point where both John Aston, Paul Reiser and Ronny Cox had to drop out due to obligations to other pending film projects. Bogomil's part was re-written as John Flint (Héctor Elizondo), and dialogue was inserted to explain that Taggart had retired, but not for Bogomil or Reiser's character, Jeffery. Because of this, the absence of these three characters, were somewhat felt. Yet, I have to say, Elizondo did pretty good in his role, to fill up, their roles, even if the script didn't do much, with his character. Plus, both Ashton and Cox have subtle cameos in this film in the form of a picture on Rosewood's desk of Foley, Taggart, Rosewood, and Bogomil on a fishing trip. It's suck that Reiser doesn't even get that. One surprising minor character that did return for this film, was Serge (Bronson Pinchot) from the original movie, who became a gun dealer in this. It's nice to see him, back, but the magic between him and Murphy has clearly die down, as it wasn't as funny as the first time. Despite what, Bronson Pinchot says about Murphy being depressed, during filming. I have to say, Eddie Murphy still makes this movie somewhat watchable. The jokes weren't half bad. I kinda laugh at Axel, even if Murphy wasn't trying that hard to make us, laugh. There were still, a small bit of his trademark wiseass snark in the film. It wasn't all depressing. I just wish, Murphy didn't felt that Beverly Hill Cop III was the movie that he would start to act like a serious mature actor. It clearly wasn't the best choice, as he later, regret, not allowing the 'edginess' of Axel to kick it in this film. He says, he can only hope to reprise the role, in the near-future. Talks of a fourth film have been going on for the past few years. I really don't see it, happening soon since Landis and Murphy both refuse to work with each other and somewhat semi-retired, since then, but who knows, what the future may bring. Maybe, one day in the future, we might hear the iconic 'Beverly Hills Cop' theme song from composer, Harold Faltermeyer once more, but until then, I have to say, 'Beverly Hills Cop III' was indeed the weakest of the three, but it's far from being the worst Eddie Murphy movie, out-there. Overall: I think it, deserve another watch. 'Beverly Hills Cop III' still has some laughs to be had.

1. Terrible scripting. Choppy editing (I could do better with a VHS MACHINE). This made the acting seem 2-dimensional and uninspired. That said, the script and screenplay were a mess, with stilted dialogue and humor-intended situations where they all but used a laugh track on punchline. It was NOT funny. Really- not funny at all. Not believable. For example, if a cop SEES someone murder a person, and the murderer later even openly confesses to that cop - why would the cop then have to prove it? What's left to prove?? THE COP IS AN EYEWITNESS. AN EYEWITNESS!! (2) machine guns are useless in this movie; WHO COULD MISS WITH A MACHINE GUN?!? Yet everyone does- CONSTANTLY. People do things in this movie that defy logic, reality, or both. Bad guys shoot people in public (in the open) but they use a suppressor, so nobody notices (SERIOUSLY?!?). A cop is attacked, it's filmed; but when they play it back its been terribly edited and minutes removed; yet still this proves nobody attacked him ? A guy turns a carnival ride off and on, which sends it into meltdown, cables break, and it falls apart. Ummm. No. I loved Bev Cop I (I rated it 9/10). This was not just disappointing, it was pathetic. Not worth the electricity to watch it free on TV. (Oh, and it was not funny.).