It's been nearly 2 and a half years since the first Beverly Hills COP movie and today I review "Beverly Hills Cop II the sequel. Now originally Paramount Pictures had planned a television series based on the first film. Eddie Murphy turned down the series however he was open to do a sequel. Producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer hired Tony Scott on as director following the success of the previous film the three did together with "Top Gun" Originally the film was to be shot in London and Paris,but the script was re-written after Murphy expressed a reluctance to film outside The United States.
Eddie Murphy's salary at that time was at the time he starred in the film was at $8 million The movie's budget was at $27 million. Ronny Cox was to have some more screen time however due to his commitment with another film (Robocop) that didn't happen. Filming began on November 10,1986 and concluded on March 25,1987.
The plot of this story follows Captain Andrew Bogomil (Cox),Sergeant John Taggart (John Ashton) and Detective Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) are trying to figure out who is behind a string of "Alphabet Crimes" Although in this movie the political change had happened. You got this HARD ASS Police Chief named Harold Lutz (Allen Garfield) who is incompetant,egotistical and verbally abusive who is doing all he can to stay on the good side of Mayor Ted Egan (Robert Ridgely). Well Lutz got pissed off at Rosewood for calling the FBI to help solve the case this lead to Lutz suspending Bogomil and demoting Rosewood and Taggart to do traffic duty. Well later in the day Bogomil gets shot by Karla Fry (Brigette Nielsen) she is a chief enforcer to Maxwell Dent (Jurgen Pronchnow) the secret mastermind of The Alphabet Crimes. When Axel Foley (Murphy) learns of this on television he abandon's the case he's working on in Detroit and flies out to Beverly Hills to reunite with Taggart and Rosewood and assist them into tracking down the ones responsible for wounding Bogomil. Posing as an FBI Agent to get past Lutz with the aid of Axel's pal and fellow cop from Detroit Jefferey Friedman (Paul Reiser) Axel makes the connection between the robberies and Dent. The first trail was one of the ammunition used in one of the robberies traced to a gunsmith named Charles Cain (Dean Stockwell) a manager of a gun club owned by Dent. Axel has Bogomil's daughter use her connections as an insurance agent to find out about Dent's financial dealings. As it rurns out Dent is robbing his own businesses intentionally in order to finance firearms transactions with an arms dealer named Nikos Thomopolis and is discreetly using Cain as the frontman for his operations. That was one reason why Bogomil got shot because he was on the right track.
Having foiled a robbery at a bank depot Foley trick's Dent's accountant by the name of Sidney Bernstein into letting him use his computer,discovering that Karla and Max are planning to leave the country. Axel also learns from Jan(Bogomil's daughter) that all of Dent's business have had their insurance coverage cancelled and are about to go bankrupt except for a racetrack. Wasting no time heading to the racetrack,Axel solves the latest riddle sent to the police and is convinced that this riddle was made easily solvable in order to throw Cain under the bus. Implicating him as The Alphabet Bandit,throwing the authorities off Dent's trail. Well the trio got there too late as they find Cain dead (he was executed by Karla). While Lutz announces that the alphabet crimes have been solved,Axel discovers some red mud at the stables which lead him,Rosewood and Taggart to Dent's oil field. There Dent is making his transaction deal with Thomopolis. The three end up in a shoot out with everyone involved. Rosewood destroys one shipment trying to escape using a rocket launcher grenade,Axel destroys another shipment by tossing a hand grenade in there. BOOM!!!! Axel manages to find Dent and kill him,Karla was about to shoot Axel until Taggart shot her and killing her. Just as the last of the criminals try to escape the police arrive and they soon surrender,arresting most of Den't goons and Thomopolis. Mayor Egan and Lutz showed up and Lutz is furious over Taggart and Rosewood's insubordination and wants Foley arrested,however Taggart and Rosewood are sick of Lutz abusive attitude tells him off as does Mayor Egan who fires Lutz as police chief. At the end of the film Bogomil is chosen as the new police chief and Mayor Egan calls Foley's boss Inspector Todd and Todd was none to pleased with what Foley had been doing out there anyway.
The Film was produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer and Directed by Tony Scott. Released in theatres on May 20,1987 and did $276.6 million in the box office making it the third highest grossing film of 1987 behind Fatal Attraction and Three Men and a Baby. I ranked this movie #2 on my favorite movies of 1987 behind Robocop. Overall Rating of this movie is a 90/100
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