Beverly Hills Cop III

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Movie
German title Beverly Hills Cop III
Original title Beverly Hills Cop III
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Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1994
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director John Landis
script Steven E. de Souza
production Mace Neufeld ,
Robert Rehme
music Nile Rodgers
camera Mac Ahlberg
cut Dale Beldin
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Beverly Hills Cop II

Beverly Hills Cop III is a 1994 American comedy film directed by John Landis . The main role was played by Eddie Murphy . The film is the sequel to Beverly Hills Cop (1984) and Beverly Hills Cop II (1987).

action

Axel Foley is the head of operations in an attack against a group of stolen goods in Detroit that deals in stolen cars and spare parts. In the process, Axel and his colleagues unexpectedly have to deal with professional killers who wanted to pick up a stolen truck with explosive freight from the workshop. A gun battle breaks out between the police officers and the heavily armed killers, in which Axel's boss, Inspector Todd, is fatally wounded. The killers finally escape with the truck and its cargo. At Inspector Todd's funeral, Axel promises his widow that he will catch her husband's murderers. Since traces can be secured at the crime scene that lead to the Wonderworld amusement park in Los Angeles , Axel immediately goes to California. There he secured the help of his old friend Billy Rosewood, who is now head of a cross-district special unit of the Los Angeles Police Department . They also receive support from John Flint, Billy's colleague.

During his own investigation, Axel comes across Wonderworld's chief security officer , Ellis DeWald, and recognizes him as Todd's murderer, but the evidence simply isn't enough to arrest him. In return, Uncle Dave, founder and patron of the park, and the employee Janice ask for help: Dave's friend and partner, Roger Fry, has mysteriously disappeared, and his last letter to Uncle Dave is no less puzzling as he has no clear clues seems to contain.

Axel starts to snoop around the park on his own and discovers that DeWald and his people are running a counterfeit money ring in the middle of the park. For this, however, they do not use ordinary paper, but special banknote paper, which was also in the stolen truck in Detroit and which is also used for the letter on which Roger Fry wrote his last message. To silence the only witnesses, DeWald shoots Uncle Dave with Foley's gun to make it look like Foley killed the old man; However, Foley escapes and takes Uncle Dave to the hospital. However, since DeWald blackmailed him with Janice as hostage for the surrender of the banknote paper, Axel sneaks back into the park, takes up the fight against the gang together with Rosewood and Flint and manages to break the counterfeit ring permanently.

In the end, the recovered Uncle Dave publicly thanks Foley and dedicates a new character to him in Wonderworld, the fox "Axel Fox".

production

Screenwriter Steven E. de Souza originally wrote the story as a kind of " Die Hard at the amusement park ". Each of the amusement park attractions he planned would have cost around $ 10 million and the entire film around $ 70 million. After the sobering box office results of the film An Honorable Gentleman , in which Eddie Murphy also played the lead role, Paramount Pictures decided to cut the budget to 55 million US dollars. As a result, the film should focus more on the investigative work and less on the action scenes. Production was temporarily stopped and the Paramount leaders tried to get the budget problems under control. Initially valued at $ 55 million, the budget soon exceeded $ 70 million. Alone 15 million US dollars of that was the fee for leading actor Eddie Murphy.

Wonderworld Park

The theme park featured in the film is California's Great America , although some changes have been made to the Columbia Carousel and the Vortex roller coaster . The park is in Santa Clara , California and not Beverly Hills as claimed in the film. Most of the stunts in the Sky Whirl scene were filmed in the studio, the scene in which George Lucas made his cameo. The tunnels that supposedly run under the park are also only studio recordings. Many of the attractions shown in the film, for example the Triple Play or the Sky Whirl , no longer exist today. Likewise, the carousel at the end of the park (not the Columbia Carousel ), which was built for the film, was changed and ultimately replaced by the Drop Zone . The triple wheel from the rescue scene was also dismantled and scrapped after filming.

In Alien Attack , it is in fact Earthquake: The Big One , an attraction of the studio tour of Universal Studios in Hollywood . The robot-like "aliens" were in fact actors in suits similar to those from Battlestar Galactica (and not animated robots, as suggested in the film).

Trivia

  • A typical trademark of director John Landis is to give short guest appearances to befriended filmmakers in his films. This film shows: Martha Coolidge (woman at the entrance to the security fair), Joe Dante (prison guard), George Schaefer (man in prison), George Lucas (disappointed man in front of the "Spider" fairground ride), Arthur Hiller ( Guest in bar), Ray Harryhausen (guest in bar), Peter Medak (man on the street corner), Barbet Schroeder (man in a Porsche), John Singleton (firefighter).
  • The composer duo Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, known as the Sherman Brothers , were hired to write the "Wonderworld Song," which can be heard in the second half of the film. This is a comedic variation on their signature song It's A Small World . The Sherman brothers were known for their scores for various Walt Disney films.
  • Songwriter Robert B. Sherman also has a guest appearance in the film, he is the third guest in the bar alongside Arthur Hiller and Ray Harryhausen.
  • The character of "Uncle Dave" in the film was loosely created on the model of Walt Disney .
  • Joey Travolta , brother of John Travolta , plays the plainclothes policeman Giolito at the beginning of the film .
  • Detective Taggert is now retired, according to Rosewood. In fact, actor John Ashton was only in his 40s and much younger than Hector Elizondo at the time of the film .

Reviews

James Berardinelli described the film on ReelViews as an "uninspired" attempt to recapture the popularity of Eddie Murphy from the early and mid-1980s. He only praised the supporting role of Bronson Pinchot.

Joe Brown praised Eddie Murphy's portrayal in the Washington Post on May 27, 1994, but also described her as "insincere." He rated the film as the most “lackluster” (“lackluster”) entry into the fan merchandise business.

The lexicon of international films described the film as "an unimaginative action comedy tailored entirely to Eddie Murphy, which cannot tie in with the first two episodes of the series either in terms of the wit or the speed of the staging."

Awards

Director John Landis and the film producers were nominated in 1995 for the negative Golden Raspberry Award.

continuation

On May 3, 2014, Paramount Pictures originally announced a fourth installment in the film series for March 25, 2016. The main role of Axel Foley was to be embodied by Eddie Murphy again.

In mid-November 2019, Paramount Pictures announced a fourth part with Eddie Murphy, which, however, should only be published via the Netflix streaming service and thus escapes a theatrical exploitation. An exact date has not yet been set.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Review by James Berardinelli on reelviews.net
  2. ↑ Review by Joe Brown in the Washington Post, May 27, 1994
  3. ↑ Beverly Hills Cop III. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Paramount announces Beverly Hills Cop IV for 2016
  5. ↑ Beverly Hills Cop: Eddie Murphy returns on Netflix for Part 4. Retrieved March 15, 2020 .

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