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Release year: 1994

Storyline

While investigating a car theft ring, Axel Foley comes across a much bigger crime; the same men who killed his boss are running a counterfeit money ring out of a theme park in Los Angeles.

Top credits

Directors

John Landis

Writers

Cast

Eddie Murphy — Axel Foley
Jon Tenney — Levine
Joey Travolta — Giolito
Eugene Collier — Leppert

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Did you know

• In a 2005 interview, John Landis claimed that Eddie Murphy worked against the comedy of the film by deliberately not being funny. Landis knew the script wasn't very good, but he figured that Murphy could save it with his comedic routine. However, Murphy felt that his Axel Foley character was an adult now, and played him much more seriously, deliberately side-stepping around the comedy. Landis said that the film "was a very strange experience", and "an odd movie".

• In an interview with The A.V. Club in 2009, Bronson Pinchot claimed that Eddie Murphy "was really depressed" at the time the movie was being filmed, claiming that Murphy was low-spirited and had a low energy level. He was depressed that most of his most recent star vehicles had either underperformed or bombed.

• On Late Show with David Letterman (1992), in 2011, David Letterman read a list of some movies from Eddie Murphy's filmography. When this movie was mentioned and the audience clapped and cheered, Murphy said, "No. No. It wasn't a very good Beverly Hills Cop movie."