Beverly Hills Cop II

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Movie
German title Beverly Hills Cop II
Original title Beverly Hills Cop II
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Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1987
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Tony Scott
script Larry Ferguson
Warren Skaaren
production Don Simpson
Jerry Bruckheimer
music Harold Faltermeyer
camera Jeffrey L. Kimball
cut Chris Lebenzon
Michael Tronick
Billy Weber
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Beverly Hills Cop - I'll definitely solve the case

Successor  →
Beverly Hills Cop III

Beverly Hills Cop II is an action comedy from 1987 and the sequel to Beverly Hills Cop, released in 1984. Eddie Murphy played the lead again, this time directed by Tony Scott . In 1994, Beverly Hills Cop III was another sequel.

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In Beverly Hills , California, the so-called alphabet crimes, which are professionally organized robberies with valuable loot, are causing a stir. A letter with an encrypted code consisting of a series of digits is left behind at each crime scene. The investigation into the case is also hampered by the new police chief, Harold Lutz, who wants to ingratiate himself with the mayor. When Andrew Bogomil (now Captain in the Beverly Hills Police Department), Taggart and Billy Rosewood investigate on their own, Lutz is upset. Bogomil is suspended and Taggart and Rosewood are transferred to the traffic police. A short time later, Bogomil is lured into an ambush and shot down in the street, but survives seriously injured. Another letter of confession with a code is left at the crime scene.

Axel Foley also learns of this incident in Detroit . Although he himself is in a delicate case and his chief Inspector Todd finally wants to see results, he immediately sets off to Beverly Hills to solve the alphabet crimes with his friends Rosewood and Taggart. As usual for Axel, he initially found suitable accommodation under a pretext. This time he pretends to be a building inspector and moves into a posh villa whose owners are on vacation.

After a short time, Axel and his Californian colleagues came across a hot trail: rare and specially made cartridges were used in the alphabet crimes. That trail leads them to the Beverly Hills Shooting Club , a shooting club owned by an industrialist named Maxwell Dent. Axel pretends to be a courier and gains access to the shooting club, where he confronts an employee with one of the seized cartridge cases, which attracts Dent's attention. He suspects that Axel is a police officer and wants to have him killed because he sees his activities in danger through his investigative work. After Axel, Billy and Taggart visited a strip club together, two professional killers are waiting for Axel in front of the club and try to shoot him. With the help of Billy and Taggart, however, Axel is able to defend himself successfully, whereupon the two killers flee. They leave their escape vehicle behind, in which Axel finds a matchbox on which he can secure the fingerprint of the manager of Dent's shooting club.

Axel, Billy and Taggert then break into the shooting club at night and look for further clues. Shortly afterwards, the next alphabet crime occurs, in which a branch of the central bank is robbed. This time, however, Axel, Billy and Taggart are on hand during the attack and can force the perpetrators to break off the attack by triggering the alarm prematurely, but they manage to escape in a wild chase. Meanwhile, the suspicion has hardened that Dent is behind the alphabet crimes. His goal is to invest the money from the robberies in weapons, which he then resells abroad for high profits. The code in the letters only serves to make Charles Cain, the manager of Dent's shooting club and the man behind the robberies, the main culprit in the end. Dent is supported by his personal assistant and lover Karla Fry. Axel, Billy and Taggart cannot prevent the last and biggest raid on a racecourse. However, Axel comes across a crucial clue: there is earth on Bogomil's running shoes that can only be found in the oil fields in front of the city. Here we come full circle, as Dent also owns oil fields and a warehouse in this area. That was the last lead Bogomil had followed, which is why Dent had tried to have him killed. Axel, Billy and Taggart storm Dent's warehouse in a huge showdown and can neutralize his minions. Dent tries to run Axel over with his car, but is fatally hit by Axel in the head. Karla then wants to take revenge for the death of her lover. She faces Foley full of hatred, intending to shoot him, but just before she can pull the trigger, she is shot by Taggart herself.

After the shooting, the mayor and police chief Lutz appear at the scene. Lutz immediately starts insulting his subordinates again. But this time Taggart and Rosewood stand resolutely against him and provide evidence of Dent's guilt, which they could only secure through unofficial undercover work and Axel's support, as Lutz repeatedly hindered them in their work on this case. Given this knowledge, Lutz is fired on the spot by the mayor for his incompetence and his insulting attitude. The mayor is now awarding the vacant position of Beverly Hills Police Chief to Captain Bogomil, who has since recovered from his injuries. The mayor is also grateful to Axel and praises him for his investigative work with Inspector Todd, who then refrains from further disciplinary measures against Axel, but orders him back to Detroit as soon as possible to resume the work that had not been done.

Reviews

According to the lexicon of international films, a “film tailored to the main actor Eddie Murphy, which largely takes over the person and plot constellations of its predecessor. Chic photography and a luxurious ambience push criminal logic into the background and offer a smooth foil for the mixture of suspense, action and humor. "

Desson Howe calls the film "a rarity: a sequel that is as good as its predecessor, if not better," in the Washington Post , while Roger Ebert describes the film as uncomfortable in the Chicago Sun-Times . According to Ebert, the character of Murphy is not likeable, but only loud and arrogant and the script only consists of thrown together standard sequences.

Trivia

  • The alphabet crimes are: A driano’s (name of the jewelery shop ), B ogomil (Capt. Andrew), C ity D eposit (branch of the central bank), E mpyrean F ields (name of the horse racing track).
  • In Billy Rosewood's apartment you can see movie posters from Rambo: First Blood Part II (German title: Rambo II - The Order ) and Cobra (German title: Die City-Cobra ). Both films starred Sylvester Stallone , who was originally supposed to star in Beverly Hills Cop . He was replaced by Eddie Murphy, because the action scenes and changes to the script (which he changed for his planned role) were too expensive for the producers. Stallone then used large parts of the script that was adapted to him for the film Die City-Cobra , for which he wrote the script himself.
  • Brigitte Nielsen , who played the role of Karla Fry, was married to Sylvester Stallone at the time of filming.
  • As Capt. Bogomil calls Foley, the latter answers as if he were just the answering machine. In the original English version, Foley poses with a Southern accent as George "Kingfish" Stevens , a role of actor Tim Moore from the television series Amos 'n' Andy, known in the US . In the German dubbing it became Michael Jackson .
  • Chris Rock makes his feature film debut in this film: He plays the uniformed parking man in front of the Playboy Mansion . This is the real estate of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner , who can also be seen in the film and plays himself.
  • Like its predecessor, the film was a commercial success. It cost $ 20 million and took in $ 300 million.

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beverly Hills Cop II. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ^ Critique by Desson Howe , Washington Post, May 22, 1987
  3. ^ Review by Roger Ebert , Chicago Sun-Times, May 20, 1987
  4. ↑ Gross profit on boxofficemojo.com
  5. ↑ Beverly Hills Cop II on fbw-filmbeval.com