Beverly Hills Cop II

The first Beverly Hills Cop film was an Eddie Murphy film. This second one is a Tony Scott film. Scott’s stylistic flourishes are front and center throughout the film as it goes through the motions of replicating all of the things that went into the first film. The problem is that I have always found Tony Scott to be a largely empty filmmaker more concerned with panache than storytelling, so combining him with a retread of a story that didn’t have a lot of meat on its bones to begin with is ...