Beverly Hills Cop II (film)
Beverly Hills Cop II is a 1987 live-action film starring Eddie Murphy and directed by Tony Scott. This is the sequel to the 1984 hit Beverly Hills Cop and was followed by Beverly Hills Cop III in 1994.
Paramount had planned a television series based on the 1984 original. Eddie Murphy refused the series but was willing to do a sequel.
Taglines: "The heat's back on!"
"Axel Foley is back. Back where he doesn't belong."
Eddie Murphy - Det. Axel Foley
Judge Reinhold - Det. William 'Billy' Rosewood
John Ashton - Det. Sgt. John Taggart
Jürgen Prochnow - Maxwell Dent
Ronny Cox - Capt. / Chief Andrew Bogomil
Brigitte Nielsen - Karla Fry
Allen Garfield - Police Chief Harold Lutz
Dean Stockwell - Charles 'Chip'
Cain
Paul Reiser - Det. Jeffrey Friedman
Gilbert R.
Hill - Insp. Douglas Todd (as Gil Hill)
Paul Guilfoyle - Nikos Thomopolis
Robert Ridgely - Mayor Ted Egan
Brian O'Connor - Biddle, Lutz's Aide
Alice Adair - Jan Bogomil
Eugene Butler - May
Plot
Set
approximately two years after the original film, Captain Bogomil (Ronny Cox),
Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold), and John Taggart (John Ashton) are trying to
figure out who is behind the "Alphabet Crimes", a series of mostly high
end store robberies (and one shooting) distinctive by their monogrammed envelopes
with an alphabetical sequence the assailants leave behind. Complicating matters
is the new "political" state of the Beverly Hills police, headed by
temperamental new police chief Harold Lutz (Allen Garfield), doing everything
he can to stay on the Mayors good side.
While investigating a lead, Bogomil
is shot by Karla Fry (Brigitte Nielsen), the chief henchwoman of Maxwell Dent
(Jürgen Prochnow). Finding out about the shooting over a news report, Axel
(Murphy) immediately flies out to Beverly Hills (covering his absence from his
actual job in Detroit by telling his commanding officer he was going "deep
deep deep DEEP undercover" on the credit card fraud case he had been assigned
to) to help find out who shot Bogomil and why. Posing as an undercover FBI agent
to get past Lutz, Axel soon starts making the connection between the robberies
and Dent, who is financing his gun trade to Central America. Having foiled a robbery
attempt at a bank depository, Axel soon uncovers that Dent is planning on making
his getaway. Axel, Billy and Taggert track Dent to where he's making his final
arms deal and take everyone down, including Dent and Karla. Although Lutz tries
to fire them for their insubordination after arriving at the scene, Billy and
Taggert are able to prove to the Mayor that Lutz would have interfered with their
bust if he had been aware of their activities, which the Mayor agreed to fire
Lutz because he was tired of his abusive attitude after witnessing Lutzs' actions
towards his men earlier. At the end of the film Bogomil is chosen to replace Lutz
as the new Chief of Police.
Trivia
According to
the book High Concept: The Life and Times of Don Simpson, screenwriter Larry Ferguson
dictated the final draft of the script to a stenographer naked, carrying a loaded
gun and swigging from a bottle of Wild Turkey bourbon in order to meet the tight
deadline. When asked to comment, Ferguson said he had to do whatever worked for
him.
The film was originally to be set and filmed in London and Paris. However,
the script was re-written after Eddie Murphy expressed a reluctance to film outside
the United States.
The film was the first American movie to utilize the concept
of a laser security grid, although the scene would eventually be cut from the
final release.
When Axel is searching the map coordinates the address of city
deposit is 9752 Gregory way but when Taggart is calling for back-up he clearly
says the address as 341 Gregory .
Paul Guilfoyle, best known as Detective
Brass on CSI: Las Vegas, has a small part as gun-runner Nikos Thomopolis. The
best shot of him, complete with a full head of blond hair, can be seen in the
scene at the Playboy Mansion.
In the scene where the cops return to Billy's
(Judge Reinhold) apartment, there is a poster of Sylvester Stallone's Cobra. This
is a reference to the fact that Stallone was originally cast as Axel Foley. After
being released from the movie, Stallone made Cobra, where Stallone put his ideas
into. A Special Edition of Beverly Hills Cop I details Stallone's involvement
in the film project. During filming of BHCII, Stallone was married briefly to
Brigitte Nielsen.
In the final shoot-out another reference to Stallone can
be heard when John Ashton (Taggert) says "Fuck Rambo." This is after
Judge Reinhold (Rosewood) blows up a semi trailer with a rocket launcher (by accident,
since he has never fired one before).
In a noticeable goof, the .44 Auto Mag
handgun is stated as being a weapon of choice by the Alphabet bandits. Empty Auto
Mag casings are even shown as key pieces of evidence from the first heist. However,
no .44 Auto Mag is used by anyone in the film. Most of the bandits use Heckler
& Koch MP-5 submachine guns, which are 9 mm. At various points, Karla used
a 9 mm and/or a .357 Magnum.
Chris Rock made his film debut here in a small
role as a valet.
When Axel first meets Chief Lutz, he tells him he is Johnny
Wishbone from the Isle of St. Croix. Upon their next meeting, Lutz says that he
checked with Immigration and they had never heard of Johnny Wishbone. St. Croix
is an island in the US Virgin Islands and therefore Immigration would have no
record of anyone from there coming to the Continental US.
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