Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024)

Source: Dan Loves Film

Dir: Mark Molloy

Cast: Eddie Murphy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Taylour Paige, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Paul Reiser, Bronson Pinchot, Kevin Bacon

While it may coast on outdated 80’s cinematic nostalgia, the long dormant action franchise is revitalised thanks to an entertainingly game performance by Eddie Murphy

Throughout the 80s and 90s, there was a plethora of buddy cop action comedies, each proving to be as critically divisive as the last despite overwhelmingly positive audience reactions. While they remained largely formulaic in putting their chalk and cheese protagonists in increasingly ludicrous action set pieces, the subgenre was a staple at a time when the cinematic landscape was far less cynical than it is today. With the odd exception like Shane Black‘s “The Nice Guys” in 2016, the buddy cop comedy has become a long dormant subgenre and at a time with legacy sequels being regularly rushed into production, it is surprising that we have not seen some of our most beloved duos return to the big screen in recent years…

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