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Eddie Murphy
Judge Reinhold
John Ashton
Lisa Eilbacher
Ronny Cox
Steven Berkoff

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A Detroit cop (Eddie Murphy) takes a leave of absence to look into the murder of a troubled old friend. The trail leads to Beverly Hills, where the irreverent Murphy investigates his friend's former employer (Steven Berkoff). Improvising his way through Beverly Hills, Murphy's "bad cop" approach rubs the local "good cops" (John Ashton, Judge Reinhold, Ronny Cox) the wrong way... until his investigation actually turns up some real evidence.

04/15/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Beverly Hills Cop

"Beverly Hills Cop" is an action comedy that still holds up. Eddie Murphy is at his best when he is forced to improvise in difficult situations. Murphy's irreverent "bad cop" is nicely balanced by the "good cops" in Beverly Hills, especially John Ashton and Judge Reinhold. Steven Berkoff plays the icy drug smuggler, and is also a nice foil for Murphy. The weak link seems to be Lisa Eilbacher, who turns in a limp performance as a character whose only role seems to be to get Murphy access to the smuggler's warehouse.

The film earned a SmokeScreeners Rating of 4 Butts for smoking content (http://tinyurl.com/cwslf9), due mostly to an early scene in which Murphy setds up a sting operation using black market cigarettes. It looks like plenty of product placement money was spread around ...

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