This one didn’t feel like an action movie at times. This film is funnier than the last movie (not by much though) and the action while not good is better than the sequences seen in the last one.

In this third instalment, just like in the other two, one of Axel Foley’s (Eddie Murphy “Norbit”) friends is shot so just like in the last two he travels to Beverly Hills to find the killer and just like the last two the killer is a respectable business man. Axel teams up with his old colleague and friend Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold “Beverly Hills Cop II”) as they recycle jokes and cause more ridiculous anarchy.

Eddie Murphy isn’t especially funny and doesn’t dish out as many wisecracks as he did in the last two put he’s enjoyable in places. Judge Reinhold isn’t good in this one (he was rubbish in the second one too) and there is a moment when he guns down a bad guy and seems to get some pleasure out of it (he smiles), which to me seems wrong. Another officer is Jon Flint (Hector Elizondo “The Princess Diaries”) who is pretty poor. The bad guy is rubbish and the idea that he runs an amusement park suddenly makes him less menacing.

The action scenes in this one are substantially better than the ones in the last movie. Most if not all of them take place in an amusement park and although they’re very chaotic I wish they’d done some more creative things with it. The film is even more unoriginal than the last film sadly. There are some funny moments in here and the action isn’t too terrible but the film is a disappointment. It offers childish slapstick moments followed by foul language and standard action movie violence. Who is this film really for? There is a scene where one of the officers starts laughing when one of his colleagues collapses after being shot (he’s okay and this takes place after the bad guys have been beaten. The best part is the cameo from George Lucas.