Eddie Murphy is not at Apex despite Cop 2 and Raw in the same year; the first Beverly Hills Cop was his apex, though the film’s success shows his star power.
Brigitte Nielsen is a yes; a long career seemed likely after this film.
Judge Reinhold is a yes, getting starring parts after Fast Times and Ruthless People before Vice Versa failed to launch him.
Taggart and Rosewood are named first, with a wish that Beverly Hills Cop movies had kept coming every two years, seven in all, to add more of them.
Brigitte Nielsen is raised next, and this is judged the best part she ever had, better than her earlier Schwarzenegger film and definitely better than Cobra.
An opening song thematically drawn from the movie is praised as something no longer done.
Shakedown was reportedly meant for Glenn Frey until his voice gave out, so Bob Seger sang it; Harold Faltermeyer’s score is compared to 48 Hours, Escape from New York, Miami Vice, and Fletch.
Shakedown is called Bob Seger’s only number-one hit, a late peak after Springsteen pulled ahead of him around 1981.
George Michael’s I Want Your Sex is called an amazing ‘80s song used perfectly.
Chris Rock’s early appearance has aged best, especially in light of the Will Smith incident.
A scene at the villains’ apartment revealing their strange relationship is wished for, and the debt-driven alphabet scheme is called too cute by half.
Simpson and Bruckheimer have aged best; Simpson reportedly had Paramount pull writer Larry Ferguson off The Presidio to work on this film.
A deleted gun-club scene where Axel, Rosewood, and Taggart sneak past lasers should have been kept.
It was reportedly the first movie filmed at the Playboy Mansion after Hugh Hefner had long refused.
The Alphabet Crimes concept could be a Fincher-style limited Netflix series with one letter per episode; the crimes ran through the jewelry store, Bogomil, City Deposit, and the racetrack, and should have reached J.
Paul Reiser appears to be reading a Playboy’s Sisters magazine in several scenes, possibly a payoff for mansion access.
