The New Beverly Hills Cop Is a Predictable Retread, and I Don’t Care
The New Beverly Hills Cop Is a Predictable Retread, and I Don’t Care Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F was not created by an algorithm, but you could be forgiven for thinking it was. Co-written by Will Beall, co-writer of Bad Boys: Ride or Die , and Tom Gormican and Kevin Etten , who wrote The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent together, this attempt to revive a franchise that has sat dormant for the past 30 years goes out of its way to incorporate all the familiar things from the original three films. Less than a minute into the movie, released exclusively on Netflix, we hear the saxophone blasts of “The Heat Is On,” the Glenn Frey hit from the original Beverly Hills Cop . They are followed soon after by Bob Seger’s “Shakedown” from Beverly Hills Cop II and the Pointer Sisters’ “Neutron Dance,” echoing the first installment. In the opening montage, Eddie Murphy, still working his wide-as-a-superhighway grin as D...