Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F

The other night I watched the 4th installment of the Beverly Hills Cop series which is now streaming on Netflix. The film is directed by Mark Molloy and features our favorite characters from the first 3 films along with some newcomers including Joesph Gordon-Levitt and Kevin Bacon. In this movie, Axel is lured back to Beverly Hills when his estranged daughter's life is threatened, and the result is lots of laughs and the same whimsical actiony antics that we loved from the earlier films.

I was happily surprised that I enjoyed this movie. Going into this, I was thinking that it would be similar to Coming 2 America where they only focused on the nostalgia aspect and forgot to tell a good story but fortunately, this was not the case for Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. Of course, there were plenty of nostalgia pieces here, but screenwriters Will Beall, Tom Gormican, and Kevin Etten did a nice job of balancing that while still telling a funny and engaging story true to the original trilogy. The acting in this movie was really good specially form Gordon-Levitt and Bacon but Eddie Murphy truly stole the show. He brilliant as Axel which is so impressive considering he is reprising a role that he has not played in 30 years. 

They did a great job of bringing this franchise back to life and it has already been confirmed by producer Jerry Bruckheimer as well as Eddie Murphy that this will not be the final Beverly Hills Cop movie. I recommend checking this one out on Netflix and if you have not seen the first 3 films, they are all streaming on Paramount+.