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‘This Is When You Can Tell A Movie’s Not Going To Work’: Eddie Murphy Gets Real About Why Beverly Hills Cop 3 Was A Misfire

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‘This Is When You Can Tell A Movie’s Not Going To Work’: Eddie Murphy Gets Real About Why Beverly Hills Cop 3 Was A Misfire

This week, one of Eddie Murphy‘s most iconic film franchise’s will finally expand when Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F premieres after decades of remaining in development hell. Part of the reason for the long wait is clearly because, even though the first two movies were massive box office hits, the third installment did not live up to its predecessors. Ultimately, it was both a critical and commercial failure. Even Murphy has admitted that the threequel has problems, calling it “soft.” With that, the actor also explained just why the film was a misfire.

It’s difficult to argue that whatever magic was present within the first two Beverly Hills Cop movies was missing in the third. The first sequel only received middle-of-the-road reviews, but it was the highest-grossing domestic movie of 1987 because it had everything fans wanted out of a sequel (on paper). Eddie Murphy admits to Screen Rant that Cop III was missing some key elements that made the earlier movies good, specifically, one co-star and more. Murphy said…

The reason Beverly Hills Cop 3 was soft was because Taggart’s not in the movie, and the villain isn’t villainous enough, and Axel didn’t have any skin in the game. The first movie, Axel’s best friend is killed. And the second one, his boss, the Chief, gets killed. And then in the third one, Uncle Dave is in trouble. That’s what the movie’s about.

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