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Beverly Hills Cop III 1994

Directed by John Landis · 105 mins · 2,278 views

2.6 Letterboxd 2.61(66,629)
Ratings J A A P M J A M P M

Synopsis

When his boss is killed, Detroit cop Axel Foley finds evidence that the murderer had ties to a California amusement park called Wonder World. Returning to sunny Beverly Hills once more, Foley reunites with Detective Billy Rosewood to solve the case. Along with Billy's new partner, Detective Jon Flint, they discover that Wonder World is being used as a front for a massive counterfeiting ring.

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Reviews (57)

  1. J
    JBird 8 月 23, 2026

    Eddie Murphy returns to the Hills, Brushing up on his detective skills. All will get shot, Then they’ll laugh a lot, LOL-ing at Disneyland kills.

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    A. J. Black 8 月 23, 2026

    According to John Landis, who re-teamed with Eddie Murphy in directing Beverly Hills Cop 3, most people on the picture knew the script was weak but he was convinced that with Murphy on form as displaced, maverick Detroit cop Axel Foley, they would make it funny by default, as he believed had been the case with the first, well loved movie a decade earlier. What he was surprised to find, on filming, was Murphy keen to dodge almost every opportunity to be funny, bring out the smart mouth of Axel, with Murphy claiming age had matured the character to the point he wouldn’t pull the same kind of tricks. Co-star Bronson Pinchot, who appears as the ultra camp Serge after…

    482 6
  3. A
    adambolt 8 月 23, 2026

    legend has it george lucas is still waiting to get on that ferris wheel

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    pd187 8 月 23, 2026

    ill never be a Real Cinephile cuz i like john landis’s stupid beverly hills cop sequel more than the tony scott one

    179 8
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    matt lynch 8 月 23, 2026

    Just as narratively useless as Tony Scott’s COP II but wildly understylized in comparison, this is so demonstrably a John Landis picture. Economically photographed, casual, packed with pointless cameos and vaudeville-level gags, steeped in nostalgic showbiz arcana, and completely self-aware. What it isn’t is even remotely exciting. The aforementioned economy would have been completely alien to the action genre by 1994, and so this is the least visceral cop movie imaginable. What’s more it almost completely lacks Axel Foley shtick, which is pretty much the only thing you’re here to see. I’d be willing to bet that that this made it through the system at all only due to sheer laziness and contractual obligation on the part of all involved, but on the other hand that seems to negate its intrinsic weirdness.

    194 7
  6. J

    Was that… George Lucas?🧐 What is he doing here? Axel Foley at a theme park🎡 sounds like the funnest premise ever so it’s kind of a downer that this is the franchise’s worst movie🎢. Taggart being missing is a huge disappointment☹️ & Axel didn’t really do his fast talking schtick🗣️ which is what made the first 2 movies special. It feels more like a generic action comedy and not part of the Bevely Hills Cop franchise🤷‍♀️. But overall, I still liked it because the characters are still loveable💙. Any scene with Billy or Serge is absolute gold😂 and even when he’s phoning it in Eddie Murphy is still one of the most charismatic guys around😎.

    285 6
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    anna nomaly 8 月 23, 2026

    Landis gets some visual mileage out of the amusement park setting, but as for narrative and humor, it’s running on fumes from the jump. The heat is off!

    170 3
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    Matt Singer 8 月 23, 2026

    This sequel’s storyline, with Axel running around an amusement park, was clearly designed to appeal to kids who’d watched the previous two R-rated Cops on cable TV. So of course, this kids-first sequel was also rated R. That’s right; it’s an adults-only kid-friendly sequel! They couldn’t even pander properly. I was one of those kids, of course, and at the time I could never figure out why I liked this one so much less than the previous two movies. (I didn’t learn about the tortured development until later.) No matter what you know about how Beverly Hills Cop III was made, it is really dire. A couple cool practical stunts aside, the stench of desperation hangs in the air throughout,…

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    Paul Scheer 8 月 23, 2026

    Why would I do this to myself? Why does this movie look so FAKE? How do you fuck up the Axel F Theme? Axel rents a Toyota Convertible?! (Cool?) “Alien Attack?” Opens door and wanders into a theme park control booth. Ronny Cox said, “They wanted me to be in Beverly Hills Cop III, but…I read the script.”

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    Michael James 8 月 23, 2026

    Except for some cutesy theme park sequences, the dull and messy movie loses out on most of the franchise juice and ends up a disappointing affair.

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    Josh Lewis 8 月 23, 2026

    “Do you know what’s scary? Beverly Hills Cop II was probably the most successful mediocre picture in history. It made $250 million worldwide, and it was a half-assed movie. Cop II was basically a rehash of Cop I, but it wasn’t as spontaneous and funny. But my pictures make their money back. There’s no reason to do [Beverly Hills Cop III]: I don’t need the money, and it’s not gonna break any new ground. How often can you have Axel Foley talk fast and get into a place he doesn’t belong? But these motherfuckers [at Paramount] are developing scripts for it. They’re in preproduction. The only reason to do a Cop III is to beat the bank, and Paramount ain’t…

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    @NavyVet🔥🔥🔥 8 月 23, 2026

    Rotten Tomatoes: 10% Metacritic Metascore: 16 IMDB: 5.5 17/100 …Awful, just awful. Jon Flint:”A $50 bill? I have a wife and three kids. I haven’t seen a $50 bill in 12 years.” I recently suffered through Beverly Hills Cop 3, and I’m genuinely angry at how terrible this movie is. Eddie Murphy looks like he’d rather be elsewhere – as his performance is so lifeless and disengaged that it’s almost painful to watch. This was clearly a cash grab on his part, and for that matter, everyone else’s part as well, from the two screenwriters who helmed the first two all the way down to the boom operator. Gone is the charismatic, quick-witted Axel Foley we loved; instead, we get…

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    sicbaldi 8 月 17, 2026

    Mediocrissimo.

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    WhiteFox 8 月 17, 2026

    Fun old style action nothing execpetional

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    OukkiDoukki 8 月 17, 2026

    -It’s oukkidoukki

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    dmfrank_ 8 月 16, 2026

    I get why they waited 30 years before making another one. This one stinks.

    2
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    MountainLionGrr 8 月 16, 2026

    It’s fine. It’s like a vanilla version of Beverly hills cop -movie. Gone are the fast mouthing and rough edged world and action. There’s memorable scenes and lovely earworm amusement park song, but if that’s the main thing on your mind after, something’s a miss.

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    lacey 8 月 16, 2026

    “i wouldn’t raid a church bingo game without swat!”

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    FinArms13 8 月 15, 2026

    I’ve been dwelling on what to rate this movie for a bit now, my initial thoughts was it’s two stars, but the more I think about it there’s so much this movie misses the mark on, from the opening scene alone and the death of one of my favourite characters Inspector Douglas Todd, it’s clear the clever humour married with the big set pieces is gone, and now it’s just a case of let’s be as silly as possible, Having only…

    1
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    firthof5th 8 月 15, 2026

    Ugh

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    robes47 8 月 15, 2026

    One of the worst movies I have ever seen. When it comes to terrible comedy sequels I would put this movie just behind Caddyshack two which was horrible. It amazes me that they made a fourth movie.

    1
  22. D
    Derek 8 月 15, 2026

    This should not have been a thing.

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    simonsreviews 8 月 15, 2026

    George Lucas?!

    1
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    ELNGRPH 8 月 15, 2026

    Il joue bien Thierry Lhermitte

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    EmilFosse7 8 月 14, 2026

    Sterk 6/10

  26. D
    drain angel 8 月 14, 2026

    tbf it’s not that bad, just not as good as the first two were. the spammage of Wonder World theme got really, really annoying fast LMAOO.

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    Absent Hobo 8 月 13, 2026

    I forgot George Lucas, Al Green and Joe Dante have cameos in this. It’s honestly fun, it’s got nothing on the first two, something I assume is because of the significant gap between the first to releases in 1984 and 1987 and this in 1994. It’s definitely the most cartoonish of the franchise, the first two were comedies but also had good action and enough of a serious plot to work without the comedy, the humour never felt forced, this…

    4
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    avashetharan 8 月 13, 2026

    The drop in quality between this one and the second one is crazy as hell 😭😭 but i still ate most of that shit upppppp. Also George Lucas jumpscare.

  29. C
    Chris Day 8 月 12, 2026

    Just fails on every level.

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    Not_Captain 8 月 12, 2026

    Dullest theme park experience since Willy’s Chocolate Experience.

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    _Spiderman79_ 8 月 11, 2026

    Carne trita e ritrita, male

  32. C
    Captain_Stubing 8 月 11, 2026

    Floja. Se desinfló la serie…

    1
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    netphantom 8 月 11, 2026

    Per lui il tempo sembra non passare, quest’ultimo BHC rimane un’altra grande manovra commerciale , come la maggior parte dei suoi film degli ultimi 15 anni

  34. M
    Mathis Nguyen 8 月 10, 2026

    no

  35. E
    evacellamorrow 8 月 10, 2026

    This sucks

  36. A
    ameliaxhane 8 月 10, 2026

    eddie murphy is easily the best part of this. he has so much charisma that even when the actual plot wasn’t doing much for me, he kept the movie entertaining. the 80s setting and soundtrack are great too, and the action has some fun moments. i just found the story pretty predictable and some of the pacing dragged. definitely has its moments, but i expected to like it more.

    1
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    lacey 8 月 10, 2026

    billy rosewood you are the loml.

  38. C
    Christopher Cobb 8 月 9, 2026

    It feels like they were just trying to ride off of the success of the first two movies without putting in the effort.

    1
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    zorcevamaja 8 月 9, 2026

    Obozujm te filme in dobr je biu ampk tok stvari je blo nerealisticno, pac naredu je stvari k jih nikol ne bi mogu u real lajfu ker bi ga ze en ustrelu pa ful stvari je spustil recimo kko je prsu v wonder world z tistim kostumom od slona ce je blo tok varnostnikou pa so ga usi gledal on se je pa sam pojavu tm not. Prva dva dela sta mi bla ful bolsa

    1
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    KuroZ 8 月 9, 2026

    Un bon film sympathique(celui que je préfère le moins des 3 mais ça reste sympa), les dernières minutes sont sympas, une perf sympa d’Eddie Murphy, faut pas s’attendre à de la dinguerie mais c’est correct

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    FelipeZaika 8 月 8, 2026

    ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ

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    SludgeFeast 8 月 8, 2026

    That’s a Landis, all right

    1
  43. C
    Casen 8 月 8, 2026

    The series just keeps getting worse sadly, I sure hope they don’t drop another one in 2024 called Beverly Hills Cop Axel F, that would just be a waste of time and money.

    1
  44. C
    Courtney 8 月 7, 2026

    Not as good as the first two but good!

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    MrSaint 8 月 7, 2026

    Does it count as a log if mumzy was watching it?

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    backto_thetaste 8 月 7, 2026

    La más aburrida de toda la trilogía

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    Milllllla 8 月 6, 2026

    Wonder World, really?

    1
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    arthur 8 月 6, 2026

    I love Timothy Carhart bro

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    jgould6 8 月 6, 2026

    Doesn’t even feel like the same character.

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    Johnny5 8 月 6, 2026

    I remember hanging out at Great America around the time this was filmed

  51. C
    currrage 8 月 6, 2026

    I still don’t know why he has to be from Detroit but called Beverly Hills cop lol. Remember the 3P’s!

    1
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    Tekking24 8 月 2, 2026

    Honestly for my first-time watch of this, it is definitely the weakest entry in the trilogy and a genuinely disappointing, bad movie. John Landis’s direction feels incredibly poor here, trading the gritty, slick style of the first two films for a bizarre, weak Wonder World amusement park setting that feels entirely too cartoonish. There is a painful, noticeable lack of that signature, sharp Eddie Murphy humor, leaving Axel feeling strangely hollow. But guess what? I still give it 3 stars…

    3
  53. K
    Kivi37_ 6 月 3, 2026

    Good not great. First and second are bit better.

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    tuamera 2 月 16, 2026

    A ambientação em um parque de diversões rende uma premissa curiosa, mas o filme perde muito da energia urbana e do humor ácido dos anteriores. Eddie Murphy tenta dar uma faceta mais séria a Axel Foley, o que tira parte do charme do personagem, resultando em uma ação genérica que vale mais pela nostalgia.

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    aurevcn 10 月 28, 2022

    really enjoyed this one. Eddie Murphy is still so funny and Axel Foley is such a fun character to follow. The film has a more playful feel and the action is entertaining.

  56. C
    Carl Patterson 2 月 29, 2020

    Only just acceptable. Not thrilling, not funny and a distinct lack of wise-crackery.

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    Por Tomás Pérez Turrent (20 de julio de 1994) Parece que Eddie Murphy (el negro que tenía el alma blanca o por lo menos gris) y su personaje del policía de Detroit suelto en Hollywood (aunque en realidad en Beverly Hills) han perdido su encanto o buena parte de él. En los Estados Unidos no ha roto ningún récord y sus resultados son menos buenos de lo que se esperaba. Recapitulemos. La primera, Un detective suelto en Hollywood (Beverly Hills…

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E Eddie Murphy Axel Foley
J Judge Reinhold Billy Rosewood
H Héctor Elizondo Jon Flint
T Timothy Carhart Ellis DeWald
J John Saxon Orrin Sanderson
J Jon Tenney Levine
J Joey Travolta Giolito
E Eugene Collier Leppert
J Jimmy Ortega Rondell
O Ousaun Elam Pederson
R Ray Lykins Nixon
T Tim Gilbert McKee
R Rick Avery Cline
G Gilbert R. Hill Todd
D Dick Purtan Detroit Disc Jockey
F Fred Asparagus Bobby
L Louis Lombardi Snake
L Lindsey Ginter Holloway
M Michael Bowen Fletch
D David Parry Taddeo
Director John Landis
Writer Steven E. de Souza
Producer Robert Rehme, Mace Neufeld, Ray Murphy Jr., Leslie Belzberg
Executive Producer Mark Lipsky
Editor Dale Beldin
Original Music Nile Rodgers
Sound Joseph Geisinger, Jeff Bushelman, William Jacobs, Doug Jackson, Kerry Dean Williams, Richard C. Franklin, Joseph A. Ippolito, Ken Dufva, David Lee Fein, Paul Massey, Steve Pederson, Scott Millan, Eric Gotthelf, Steve Mann
Special Effects Jon G. Belyeu, Manuel S. Epstein, Chuck Hessey, William Aldridge, Chris Burton, Harold Selig
Stunts Rick Avery, Eric Chambers, Steven Lambert, Jeannie Epper, Rosine 'Ace' Hatem, Eurlyne Epper, Charlie Picerni, Joni Avery, Spiro Razatos, Doug Coleman, Gregory J. Barnett
Synopsis
When his boss is killed, Detroit cop Axel Foley finds evidence that the murderer had ties to a California amusement park called Wonder World. Returning to sunny Beverly Hills once more, Foley reunites with Detective Billy Rosewood to solve the case. Along with Billy's new partner, Detective Jon Flint, they discover that Wonder World is being used as a front for a massive counterfeiting ring.
Director
John Landis
Writer
Steven E. de Souza
Studio
Eddie Murphy Productions, Mace Neufeld Productions, Robert Rehme Productions, Paramount Pictures
Country
USA
Language
English
Year
1994
Runtime
105 mins

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