“Beverly Hills Cop” is a wonderful funky cop flick starring Eddie Murphy (“Trading Places”). “Beverly Hills Cop” isn’t just violence like so many cop movies and it isn’t just comedy but it’s a collaboration of the two and that’s what makes “Beverly Hills Cop” a great experience.

In “Beverly Hills Cop”, Eddie Murphy plays the reckless Detroit cop named Axel Foley. His friend Mikey (James Russo “Public Enemies”) is murdered when he comes after working in Beverly Hills so Axel goes to find out who is responsible for his friend’s death. In Beverly Hills while claiming he’s on holiday Axel causes anarchy as he tries to search for the killers and it’s one hilarious moment followed by another action packed one. On Axel’s tail are two conservative cops (Judge Reinhold “The Santa Clause”, John Ashton “Midnight Run”).

Eddie Murphy is amusing as the wisecracking police officer Axel Foley. Eddie Murphy just gives a lot of energy into the character yet he seems to be very casual. Judge Reinhold is really funny in this movie as one of the goofy officers. The bad guy is disappointing to the say the absolute least. Most of the cast members are decent.

“Beverly Hills Cop” isn’t a brilliant movie but there are so many hilariously executed moments and so many well-done action scenes it’s hard not to enjoy the movie. Whether it is a car chase or a shootout the action never disappoints and the humour, while not always fantastic is good most of the time. The music is really great too. Here’s a bit of trivia for people. Originally, this movie was meant for Sylvester Stallone but he wanted to do a more serious movie and thus did “Cobra” while Eddie Murphy got his chance to shine in this cult classic cop flick.