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#179 - Beverly Hills Cop
Martin Brest, 1984
A loose-cannon police officer travels from his hometown of Detroit to Beverly Hills in order to find out the reason why his friend was murdered.
I haven't watched Beverly Hills Cop in about a decade and wasn't all that impressed with it the last time, but I think that I was definitely right to give it a second chance. It may work off an extremely familiar plot with its fish-out-of-water cop trying to solve a mystery and being stupefied at every turn by both villains and allies alike (to say nothing of the setting itself), but it works. A lot of that is down to Eddie Murphy deploying an incredibly infectious level of charm as a jovial yet sharp-witted police officer whose rapid-fire dialogue and hearty laugh are more than enough to carry the film. There's a decent supporting cast at work here and the mid-'80s action-comedy aesthetic (best exemplified by Harold Faltermeyer's iconic synthesised score) complements the film just fine, plus it can actually pull off some decent action towards the end as well.
Martin Brest, 1984
A loose-cannon police officer travels from his hometown of Detroit to Beverly Hills in order to find out the reason why his friend was murdered.
I haven't watched Beverly Hills Cop in about a decade and wasn't all that impressed with it the last time, but I think that I was definitely right to give it a second chance. It may work off an extremely familiar plot with its fish-out-of-water cop trying to solve a mystery and being stupefied at every turn by both villains and allies alike (to say nothing of the setting itself), but it works. A lot of that is down to Eddie Murphy deploying an incredibly infectious level of charm as a jovial yet sharp-witted police officer whose rapid-fire dialogue and hearty laugh are more than enough to carry the film. There's a decent supporting cast at work here and the mid-'80s action-comedy aesthetic (best exemplified by Harold Faltermeyer's iconic synthesised score) complements the film just fine, plus it can actually pull off some decent action towards the end as well.