Complete Idiot said:

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Know Your Enemy said:

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It's no Academy Award nominee but posts like that are ridiculous. There no way they haven't seen a worse movie this month.

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It may be the first movie they've ever seen in their life.

Something to think about.

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Like anybody could even know that, Napoleon.

I guess he never watched Beverly Hills Cop 3.

Watched it last night and really liked it. Love tying in some of the characters from BHCI.

Thought it was good Netflix fare. Not sure I would have been satisfied had I paid to see it in theatres.

The plot was surprisingly thinner than either of the first two movies (and that's saying a lot). The bearer bonds scam and the alphabet murders were hardly high brow affairs, but this seemed far more "Bad Boys" than Beverly Hills Cop where they didn't even really try and mask that Bacon was a bad guy.

I think I'm too big a fan of the first (and somewhat of the second) that the constant throwbacks started to be a little too much. Literally every other scene was "how can we have Axel do something that calls back to the original?" Wish it would have carved out it's own niche a bit, but obviously there's danger in trying to do that (reference Beverly Hills Cop 3).

I think the acting all the way around was solid. Didn't love Axel's daughter but she didn't kill the movie for me. Joseph-Gordon and Bacon were both good in their roles.

Overall, not sure I'd purposely watch it again but wouldn't turn it off if it came on (where as I will for part 3). I'd plant it firmly #3 in the series. Way ahead of BHC3, but a pretty good ways behind BHC2. The chemistry still worked for Foley/Rosewood/Taggart back then, now it just seems forced.

Good review. My wife and I watched tonight. Even got our 18 year old to hang in for half of it before he tapped out.

The throw back cast was outstanding for nostalgia sake. Loved it.

Fun movie. Agree it's well in the #3 position behind 1 and 2.

My biggest complaint is why didn't Axel have the classic laugh? I was waiting and it never happened unless I missed it somehow.

I'm guessing Eddie can't do it anymore.

I enjoyed it quite a bit.

Good summer flick.

Needed a Dan Campbell cameo.

I saw in an interview he said someone asked him about the laugh one time and he got self-conscious and changed it.

(It was his real laugh.)

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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I saw in an interview he said someone asked him about the laugh one time and he got self-conscious and changed it.

(It was his real laugh.)

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Yeah. If you watch Delirious it's there.

JCA1 said:

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Like others said, the plot was just OK but it's a solid throwback to the action comedies of the 80s Eddie made famous. Worth watching IMO.

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THIS

I enjoyed it, decent ride, plot was believable in the over the top movie believable way. The nostalgia was pretty good and not overdone I think. Fun cameos.

The acting was.... spotty at best. Several characters/people just felt flat. Not that this series ever had the best actors. I know they are old, but they also acted old not just that their characters were old but that they were tired and (imo) just mailing it in. Eddie was the most charismatic of course. No surprise.

Still I enjoyed it for what it was.

I think the problem I had with the nostalgia actually was because of the flat acting. I didn't mind the throwback scenes, but the throwback scenes with a tired Judge Reinhold just didn't hit.

Proposition Joe said:

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I think the problem I had with the nostalgia actually was because of the flat acting. I didn't mind the throwback scenes, but the throwback scenes with a tired Judge Reinhold just didn't hit.

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Yeah that is pretty much it.

Waiting for this hurricane last night, we convinced our 18-year-old to watch Beverly Hills Cop and then this new one. She really liked the original, but I think she was zoning out during the new one.

I enjoyed the new one, laughed a lot, and really felt the nostalgia to 80s action comedies. I liked the line between Eddie and daughter - I've been a dad as long as you've been a daughter. I doubt I will watch this one again, and I doubt I would have seen it at a theater. I never saw 3, and don't remember much of 2 other than Billy's fascination with Rambo and big guns.

Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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Waiting for this hurricane last night, we convinced our 18-year-old to watch Beverly Hills Cop and then this new one. She really liked the original, but I think she was zoning out during the new one.

I enjoyed the new one, laughed a lot, and really felt the nostalgia to 80s action comedies. I liked the line between Eddie and daughter - I've been a dad as long as you've been a daughter. I doubt I will watch this one again, and I doubt I would have seen it at a theater. I never saw 3, and don't remember much of 2 other than Billy's fascination with Rambo and big guns.

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I've seen BHC too many times. I think I saw BHC2 once when it came out. No recollection of it at all.

This was a dumb, fun movie.

Just watched it and the wife and i enjoyed it more than we thought we would.

I liked it a lot. Always loved the originals. Netflix did good rolling out the first two with it. Will bring some new but it's really for all us aging and old folks. Had more of an 80s vibe than anything lately except Stranger Things. Lots of a fun lines, Easter eggs, and call backs. Adding more new characters plus the old ones made it flow. Glad to see Serge.

I'm obviously very late to the party, but I just watched it. As others have said, it's a fun nostalgia ride. Probably a good fit for Netflix. If I paid to take the whole family to see it, I'm not sure if have liked it as much.

The best part about it is that I decided I should watch the the original and number two before watching this one. I'm so glad I did, because I was too young to see the original and I never got around to watching it when I got older. It was really great, and the type of 80s movie I miss.

I watched it last week and really enjoyed it. I was scared of another Eddie Murphy stinker cash grab, but this was good. A little light on the plot, but it was fun.