Beverly Hills Cop II Review, by Vlad Pirvu 2

Beverly Hills Cop II - Review

As you continue your duty as a police officer, you will face threats that either big or right under your nose. Whatever the case, you must those robbers before they escape, no matter the cost and/or the damage done to the city. And if the robbery is more than meets the eye, the better, even if you may not be a good detective or have a detective by your side, to spice things up. That’s what I think about Beverly Hills Cop II.

Andrew Bogomil, Billy Rosewood and John Taggart try to find who is behind the “Alphabet Crimes”, a series of high end robberies distinguished by envelope containing an alphabetical sequence the robbers leave behind. Unfortunately, the incompetent and abusive police chief Lutz’s attempts to remain on the mayor’s good side does clash with their case and when Rosewood calls FBI to help, Lutz holds Bogomil responsible and suspends him while placing Taggart and Rosewood on traffic duty as punishment. On his way home, Bogomil is shot by a robber because his investigation is on the right track and Axel Foley, hearing about it on the TV, abandons his undercover duties and immediately arrives in Beverly Hills to help find out who shot him, with Taggart and Rosewood tagging along. Axel eventually connects the robberies to a gun club owner named Maxwell Dent when he finds a bullet fired at one of the robberies was designed by Charles Cain, the manager at that club. With the suspect close to leaving the country and Lutz complicating things with his abuse, will Axel be able to solve this case?

While the first film was great, this sequel kinda fails to live up to expectations (though what can we expect out of a sequel, anyway?). While Alex Foley remains appealing and wisecracking, the film doesn’t take him anywhere new enough to justify the film as a sequel. It’s basically mediocre. A successful mediocre worldwide, but mediocre nonetheless. But if you have yet to see the first movie, this one is a good stand-in until you watch it. It is a good watch, full of bad language, humor and bullets.