Continuing the search of movies I haven't touched or seen and browsing through Netflix I stumbled upon Beverly Hills Cop, another one of these movies that I haven't seen for which was the turning point to former SNL star Eddie Murphy at that time. I think a reasonable explanation as to why I avoided any Eddie Murphy films is really after watching the Nutty Professor 2, I truly believe that was my breaking point and this was at a young age all I can remember was laughing but then his future projects like Norbit, Daddy Day Care or Tower Heist I just felt absolute no I don't want to dive deep into that disgust. Now I don't know if I'm finding the right Eddie Murphy film but so far, I at least found the perfect Eddie Murphy that can't be worse than the Nutty Professor movies or Norbit, right?
After his childhood buddy is murdered while visiting Detroit, rebellious cop Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) follows the leads to Beverly Hills, Calif., under the auspices of a vacation. He checks in with old friend Jenny Summers (Lisa Eibacher) and starts to believe her boss, art dealer Victor Maitland (Steven Berkoff), might somehow be involved in the murder. However, Lt. Bogomi (Ronny Cox) of the Beverly Hills Police Department does not trust Foley and hinders his search for evidence.
Around 1977, executive Don Simpson came up with the idea of a cop from East L.A. being transferred to Beverly Hills. Screenwriter, Danilo Bach was the first to be called up by Don Simpson to write the screenplay. Originally around 1981, Bach pitched to both Simpson and Paramount under the name Beverly Hills Drive, about a cop from Pittsburgh named Elly Axel. However, Bach's script was a straight action movie, and he was forced to make a tone of changes to the script, but after a few attempts the project went stale but, after the success with Flashdance (1983) Simpson made it clear, that the Beverly Hills film as his next project to be. Now, to make a long story short, the attempts of the movie getting made went beyond interesting aspects that you'd never expect, because Eddie Murphy wasn't the first actor to be offered the role of Axel Foley like Harrison Ford not being the first choice for Han Solo or Indiana Jones, Mickey Rourke was first offered the role even Sylvester Stallone was consider the part for Axel Foley even stationed him to write the screenplay for which he included more dramatic scenes and it wasn't for another revision of the script that both Don Simpson and his partner Jerry Bruckheimer convinced Eddie Murphy to take the role of Axel Foley and to be truthfully honest I don't think this movie would of ever been successful if they didn't approach Eddie Murphy for the role. Speaking of Eddie Murphy, I truly believe that this is one of the many movies I should of started on from his career to watch first instead of his later movie for many reasons this was one of the first movies I sat down and watched a SNL legend really does a great job playing not just the comedic performance but also does a fantastic job playing all of the dramatic scenes for which that's really what you need when it comes to a cop movie like this. Like, Fletch the movie itself is very 80's style of filmmaking which is fine no complaint here but I believe what makes this film different and unique is that it has a catchy theme song composed Harold Faltemeyer who does such a great job in creating a tune for everyone while watching Beverly Hills Cop, everyone can have a good time watching movie and whistling the music to themselves when the movie is over. Without a question a movie with the recommendation it has that fun and entertaining value but more importantly you see a much better actor in Eddie Murphy than his other movie roles where he feels like he's depressed and is only in the movie to pay the mortgage. So, if you're looking for an entertaining Cop movie, I would most certainly recommend watching Beverly Hills Cop on Netflix as of right now. Although now having liked the first Beverly Hills Cop since the film is officially 40 years old, I'm still on the iffy on whether to continue with its successors though I'll let you all know when I get to that fork in the road.
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