Review – Beverly Hills Cop

If you’ve got a term paper due and you just happen to be writing it about the genre of cop movies that feature a street-wise young maverick detective who plays by his own rules, then you’d better watch this one before you type up your essay and turn it in. Eddie Murphy wisecracks and fist-fights his way through a couple of hours worth of smarmy villains, expensive chase sequences and uninteresting plot twists. It’s a cheap thrill ride, some tunes that charted back when the film first came out back in the mid-80s, and not much more. Mildly amusing