It’s been 30 years since we last saw Eddie Murphy’s motormouthed Detroit cop Axel Foley tearing up LA (and, shudder, Disneyland, sorry, Wonder World) in Beverly Hills Cop 3. But now he’s back, still silver of tongue as he brashly disobeys orders, but also following Mav’s lead in Top Gun: Maverick by being a little less cocky, a little more wise.
"They love me in Beverly Hills," grins Foley, this time drawn to the city to protect his estranged lawyer daughter, Jane (Taylour Paige – Zola, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom), whose life is threatened when she defends a young man framed for murder. The real culprits, she believes, are LA cops operating under the jurisdiction of the Rolex-wearing Captain Grant (Kevin Bacon, out-sleazing his PI in Ti West’s MaXXXine).
