Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F

In terms of long-dormant movie franchises that were never that great to begin with suddenly coming back, I suppose you could do worse than Netflix’s revival of the Beverly Hills Cop franchise, bringing Eddie Murphy’s Axel Foley back once more decades after his last, dismal effort. I mean, this isn’t good, but it’s not bad either. It doesn’t have the breezy comedic air of the first or the extreme stylishness of the second, but it has a cohesive plot and efforts at comedy unlike the third.

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