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It’s been 30 years since we last saw Eddie Murphy’s motormouthed Detroit cop Axel Foley tearing up LA (and, shudder, Disneyland, sorry, Wonder World) in Beverly Hills Cop 3. But now he’s back, still silver of tongue as he brashly disobeys orders, but also following Mav’s lead in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Top Gun: Maverick by being a little less cocky, a li൩ttle more wise.

"They love me in Beverly Hills," grins Foley, this time drawn to the city to protect his estranged lawyer daughter, Jane (Taylour Paige – Zola, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom), whose life is threatened when she defends a young man framed for murder. The real culprits, she believes, are LA cops operating under the jurisdiction of the Rolex-wearing Captain Grant (Kevin Bacon, out-sleazing his PI in Ti West’s MaXXXine).

Mark Malloy’s feature debut is a pleasing return to the action thrillers of the '80s and '90s, favoring a run-and-gun investigation that serves up police corruption, drug cartels and plenty of crunchy, in-camera vehicula💧r mayhem. Old pals Taggart (John Ashton) ဣand Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) are along for the ride, and variations on Harold Faltermeyer’s iconic score get plenty of mileage.

Is it as zesty as Martin Brest’s 1984 original? Of course not. But the father-daughter dynamic works well and the era shift꧂ means our fish-out-of-water hero now☂ has to battle against being washed up. ("They don’t want swashbucklers out there anymore; they want social workers.") You might not be giving it the full Axel-like heh-heh-heh, but you’ll be smiling and chuckling throughout.


Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F streams on N🐽etflix 🍬from July 3. 

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