I loved the first “Beverly Hills Cop” film because it was a funny and action-packed cop film but “Beverly Hills Cop II” isn’t funny and the action isn’t half as good this time around. The film recycles a lot of things from the first movie and the new jokes it has are recycled throughout too.

In “Beverly Hills Cop II”, Captain Bogomil (Ronny Cox “RoboCop”) is gunned down and is hospital with critical injuries so his old friend Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy “The Nutty Professor”), a foulmouthed Detroit police officer goes to Beverly Hills to find the people responsible. Axel teams up with officers Rosewood (Judge Reinhold “Beverly Hills Cop”) and Taggart (John Aston “Beverly Hills Cop”) to take on a gang that do crime coded by the alphabet.

Eddie Murphy tries to be funny but isn’t. No one else tries to be funny though and at times maybe things would have worked if the other actors/actresses had given something back. All-round he’s no way near as amusing as he was the first time around. Judge Reinhold isn’t funny this time around either. Ronny Cox sadly has limited screen time. Brigette Nielson (“Red Sonja”) is appalling in this film as one of the bad guys (or should I just say baddies).

“Beverly Hills Cop II” disappoints me. The first film was originally intended for Sylvester Stallone but he wanted to do something more violent and thus he did “Cobra”, in this movie the poster for “Cobra” appears and there are numerous references to the “Rambo” and those are the best moments in this film. At times the film doesn’t really feel like a comedy and more like a rubbish 80s action flick but when there are jokes they don’t work. Although I still think the first one is great you should definitely skip this one.