How long is too long to wait for a sequel? It’s a topic I’ve been pondering in the wake of two recent releases that took a glacially long time to reach us. The first was Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, a comeback for Eddie Murphy’s fish-out-of-water lawman whose arrival on Netflix came 30 years on from franchise nadir Beverly Hills Cop 3 The second was Twisters, not so much a follow-up to the 1996 original as an even windier upgrade.
I can’t say I’d been pining for Murphy’s Axel Foley, any more than I’d been craving a return to Oklahoma’s Tornado Alley. But I dutifully saw Twisters and Axel F anyway, quietly nursing the hope that they’d deliver at least a fraction of the feels Jan de Bont’s original and the first Cop had given me.
