In this case, that's not such a good thing. Like so many movies covered in #HeavyAction, its star is the movie's real auteur.
#BEVERLY HILLS COP 2 MOVIE#
It is also an ugly, angry movie damned by the hubris of Eddie Murphy. It helped cement director Tony Scott's A-list status as a director of slick, successful Hollywood product.
Like its predecessor, it was a huge hit - the third highest-grossing film of 1987. The former, though, is not so easily dismissed. The latter film is hardly worth talking about it's barely a movie, much less a Beverly Hills Cop movie, and has the distinction of being the worst movie on director John Landis' distinguished resume. Two of its inferior imitations are its own sequels, 1987's Beverly Hills Cop II and 1994's Beverly Hills Cop III. It's one of those watershed movies in the action genre. Its influence has been filtered down through so many pale and inferior imitations that it's easy to forget just what a massive impact that it had on Hollywood. The movie was the second highest-grossing film of 1984 (eventually edged out by Ghostbusters), receiving nominations for both the Golden Globes and the Oscars and officially turning Eddie Murphy into a global superstar. Though there had been movies in which a cop is up against a big case and out of his or her depth, very few had the cop face down threats with a quick wit and lot of attitude - and certainly none of them on a level of success achieved by the original Beverly Hills Cop.
Every action comedy of the last 25 years, be it Bad Boys or the Rush Hour series or this week's Ride Along 2, owes a debt to Beverly Hills Cop.
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