Beverly Hills Cop III

1994 "In for the ride of his life."
5.5| 1h45m| R| en| More Info
Released: 24 May 1994 Released
Producted By: Eddie Murphy Productions
Country: United States of America
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When his boss is killed, Detroit cop Axel Foley finds evidence that the murderer had ties to a California amusement park called Wonder World. Returning to sunny Beverly Hills once more, Foley reunites with Detective Billy Rosewood to solve the case. Along with Billy's new partner, Detective Jon Flint, they discover that Wonder World is being used as a front for a massive counterfeiting ring.

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GamerTab That was an excellent one.
FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.
richspenc At one point in BHC3 when we've all heard the Wonder world song more than enough times (not exactly a song most adults including me were keen on to begin with), Hector Elizondo yells that line that I decided to use as my title. It definitely was a line I was more than ready to yell myself. A tough guy buddy cop film mixed in with a very large percentage of the film at the kiddie theme park with a bunch of people in big furry animal costumes and all that kiddie music was apparently a great idea for some reason to the writers of our beloved Axel Foley's third adventure through the cop/criminal world of L.A. I'm sure they initially wanted to make the theme park in this movie Disney Land but we're afraid of the legalities that would likely to have come out of it. Even the merry go round in the film I'm sure was the one at Disney land. And I read somewhere that the spider ride where Axel saves those kids was a ride at Six flags in California. Anyway, the high amount of high pitched children's songs for a cop movie made this not my favorite BHC film. There was one I happened to find very amusing though, the "I'm a happy train " song during a chase when one of the bad guys kicked the train off the tracks and the happy train voice went "ahhhhh!!".I still enjoyed some of Eddie Murphy's hygincs though and he was slightly toned down here from his overly excitable overly high strung performance in BHC2 in 1987. Axel was at just the right happy medium temperament wise here and in the first BHC though, which was just right. Making a cop in a cop film too mellow is also a mistake, but luckily Murphy never went there in any of three movies. Just like in the first two Cops, Murphy goes out to L. A. to swear revenge on the bad guys that killed someone important to him. It was an old buddy of his in BHC, Beverly Hills police captain Bogomil (Ronny Coz) in BHC2, and Murphy's boss inspector Todd (Gilbert Hill) here. In BHC2 however it was attempted murder on Bogomil and not murder, since he almost died but then survived. In BHC3 Murphy meets up with Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) again, now promoted with a big office. This time we are without Taggert or Bogomil. There's a brief mention of Taggert being retired and endlessly searching for his lost golf balls in Arizona. I believe that he just didn't want to appear in a film that spends so much time in Wonder world with all those animal costumes and that d**n Wonder world song. I don't blame him. Taggert being absent was another reason this film wasn't the best. The bad guys in this movie who, after the initial showdown in Detroit takes place, go back to their California base with Axel tailing after them. Their base is in, wow I would've never guessed, Wonder world. Yayy. Why do some early 1990s films have the bad guys really enthusiastic about late 1950s or 1960s music? "Cop and a half' '(which I did not like) was another example of that with Ray Sharky as late 50s wannabe singer Joey Fountain, trying to sing like Bobby Darin. The bad guys here in BHC3, led by the kniving Ellis Dewald (Tim Carhart) have an underground counterfeit operation at the park. We then get the standard story line of Axel chasing them down, him getting in trouble for wrecking havoc while unsuccessfully trying to convince everyone that the seemingly legit businessmen are really foul. Not too different a situation from the first Beverly Hills cop. As present Beverley Hills captain Hector Elizondo tells Axel, "I've heard Tagger's stories about you". Wonder world is owned by everybody's 'uncle', Uncle Dave (Alan Young) who at one point Dewald shoots ("Oh my God! Someone shot Uncle Dave!?") Guess who's initially blamed. We also get another appearance of Serge (Bronson Pichart) as the flamboyant art store designer from BHC, now selling ultra big state of the art machine guns including the Annihilator 2000, which even contains a small microwave oven. One other scene kind of amusing was when Dewald (who everyone at that time still thought he was a good guy) was giving a speech at an awards presentation, and the way Axel jumps up onto the stage uninvited with his wise cracks. Murphy's always been good making scenes like that amusing, such as in "The nutty professor" where he also has a very funny jumping onto the stage uninvited scene with stand up comedian Dave Chappel.
simonkie Is Beverly Hills Cop III better than part 1 or 2? No. Does that make it a bad film. Of course not. There are some good qualities to this film that makes it enjoyable. First the villain was much better than part 2. Using an amusement park as the base location of Axel Foley's investigation gave it a unique feel instead of running all over Beverly Hills again. That we have seen 2 times. Eddie Murphy was his usual Axel Foley self while Judge Reinhold returns as the goofy Billy Rosewood. The biggest problem was audiences were not ready for another Beverly Hills Cop movie and to live up to the previous two was impossible with not having the full cast from the previous films. Overall I have watched this numerous times. Plenty of action and laughs make this an entertaining film.
Adam Peters (46%) The first was a good fun action comedy, the second was more hard edged and stylish; very 1980's, this though isn't really anything. The very kid friendly theme park setting doesn't go with the R-rated script because the makers didn't (or couldn't) do anything with it that's really all that inventive or smart to get past the issue. It's also very much a movie that ticks boxes as it goes along. Shoot outs, tick, wise ass Eddie, tick, generic bad guy, tick, it's all just a little tired and worn. That said it's not awful, as it passes the time decently, but overall it's still a lazy sequel made entirely to cash grab from past success.
gavin6942 Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy), while investigating a car theft ring, comes across something much bigger than that: the same men who shot his boss are running a counterfeit money ring out of a theme park in Los Angeles.This film generally gets a bad rap, being accused of being the worst in the series. Even director John Landis has distanced himself, saying that Murphy was going through a rough time in his life and was not giving it everything he had. These may be fair comments, but the film is still better than given credit for.Maybe not as funny as the first two, and maybe Murphy is more toned down, but there is still plenty of fun here from Bronson Pichot and others... not to mention an overall decent script. Even just trying to identify the director cameos is a fun game.