The distance of 30 years turns some pain into a joke. That is at least true for a scene from Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F., in which the notorious flop predecessor Beverly Hills Cop 3 through the meat grinder becomes.
Eddie Murphy names 3 reasons for the Beverly Hills Cop 3 disaster
There, main character Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) is once again arrested by the Beverly Hills police because he is causing chaos in their wealthy neighborhood. Detective Bobby Abbott takes his file and goes through Foley’s visits to Beverly Hills, which were the subject of the previous Beverly Hills Cop films.
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Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F – Trailer (German) HD
“Not her finest hour“, he explains dryly about Foley’s visit in 1994, the content of Beverly Hills Cop III. Anyone who knows about the reputation of the third franchise film will recognize the dig immediately.
Beverly Hills Cop 3 was a critical and financial flop when it was released about 30 years ago. To this day, it is considered by many to be the weakest film in the series, which, according to many reactions on Metacritic, is at a bad script and a listless lead actor Speaking to Screen Rant, lead actor Murphy remembers the exact moment when he realized the film’s weaknesses:
There is this one scene in the film where I see the dying [Freizeitpark-Besitzer] I’m driving Uncle Dave to the hospital. And I say, ‘Don’t die on me now!’ How many times have you heard that in the movies? When you’re in a movie and you scream, ‘Don’t die on me now,’ then you know the movie won’t work.
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Beverly Hills Cop III – Trailer (German) HD
Murphy then calls three reasons why the film flopped: “Beverly Hills Cop 3 was bad because [Foley-Sidekick] John Taggart was missing because the villain wasn’t evil enough and because Axel had nothing to lose.“
Beverly Hills Cop 3 director thinks Eddie Murphy’s hiring was the mistake
However, Beverly Hills Cop 3 director John Landis (Blues Brothers) expressed a completely different opinion in an interview with Collider. According to him, Murphy was at that time jealous of the serious roles of colleagues like Denzel Washington and Wesley Snipes and therefore torpedoed the humor of the film.
Everything funny in part 1 was [improvisiert]so I thought we would do this [in Teil 3] too. But when I threw a few jokes at Eddie on the first day, he said, ‘You know, John, Axel Foley is all grown up now. He’s not a smartass anymore.’ […] I tried to put him in funny situations and he found a way around them. It was a strange film.
No matter who or what was ultimately to blame for the film’s flop, the experience was so disastrous for several people involved and for several reasons that there was radio silence in the franchise for 30 years afterward. Until now. Now the disaster of the past has become a laughing stock.
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Netflix invests unimaginable sums in its original films, but the question often arises: where on earth did the money go? And was the effort really worth it? In this edition of our Moviepilot podcast Streamgestöber we look at the most expensive films in Netflix history.
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For quite some time now, the streaming service has been trying to compete with big blockbuster productions and is spending a lot of money to do so. But what will the end result be?
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