Over the course of forty years and four installments, has anyone ever watched a Beverly Hills Cop movie for the story?
As long as the plot motor is ticking over somewhere in the background, while Eddie Murphy’s Axel Foley is in the midst of his latest outrageous car chase, stakeout, shootout, comic riff or dodgy impersonation of a totally fictitious city official we don’t particularly care - or give much thought - to what it is that is motivating him to get from A to B to C to D, and so on.
