Beverly Hills Cop III (film)
Eddie Murphy - Det. Axel Foley
Jon Tenney - Levine
Joey Travolta - Giolito
Eugene Collier - Leppert
Jimmy Ortega - Rondell
Ousaun Elam - Pederson
Ray Lykins - Nixon
Tim Gilbert
- McKee
Rick Avery - Cline
Gilbert R. Hill - Insp.
Douglas Todd (as Gil Hill)
Dick Purtan - Detroit Disc Jockey
Fred Asparagus
- Bobby
Louis Lombardi - Snake
Lindsey Ginter - Holloway
Timothy Carhart - Ellis De Wald
picture
that was directed by John Landis, who had previously worked with Murphy on Trading
Places and Coming to America. Judge Reinhold reprises his role as Det. William
"Billy" Rosewood.
Production was temporarily shut down to allow
the Paramount top brass the chance to get to grips with the film's spiraling budget.
Originally estimated at $55 million, it was soon in excess of US$70 million. Of
that budget, $15 million was Eddie Murphy's paycheck. It was released on 25 May
1994 and grossed a disappointing US$44 million in the United States, but over
$75 million in the foreign box office.
Plot
Eddie
Murphy's character, Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills once again. This time
it's personal: During an assignment, his boss, Inspector Todd gets killed, and
certain evidence points towards an amusement park called "Wonderworld".
Upon arriving in Beverly Hills, Axel looks up his old friend, Billy Rosewood who
has attained the title of DDOJSIOC (Deputy Director of Joint Special Inter Operational
Command). Taggart had retired and a new detective called Jon Flint (played by
Hector Elizondo) is Rosewood's new partner.
Criticism
The
film was criticized for many reasons. For one, fans of the series missed John
Ashton, Ronny Cox and Paul Reiser, who didn't reprise their roles. Secondly, original
producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson were not involved in the production
as they were previously. Many critics felt the movie was a generic, formulaic
action-comedy film. Also critics felt Eddie Murphy gave a somewhat routine performance
as Axel Foley.
When Eddie Murphy appeared on the television show Inside the Actor's Studio (first airing on December 19, 2006), he claimed that he felt the third film was "atrocious" and such a disgrace that "the character was kind of banished for a while [from Hollywood]."
Trivia
The
title does not appear in the film.
National Association of Security Agencies
can be abbreviated to NASA.
Writer Steven E. de Souza originally wrote the
story as more “Die Hard in a theme park”. He was told that each of the
rides he had designed would cost about $10 million to build and the whole film
would cost about $70 million. When box office results for The Distinguished Gentleman
came in, Paramount ordered the budget to be cut to $55 million. Consequently the
film became more about the investigation and less about the action.
The theme
park featured in the movie was Paramount's Great America, however some modifications
were made to the Columbia Carousel and Vortex roller coaster.
The ride featured
in the rescue scene at the park was Triple Wheel (formerly known as Sky Whirl).
Since the movie was made the ride has been demolished and scrapped.
The film's
director John Landis hired the Sherman Brothers to write the "Wonderworld
Song" which appears throughout the second half of the movie. The song is
a comedic take on their own signature song, "It's A Small World". Robert
B. Sherman also makes a cameo in the film. In the film, he sits next to Arthur
Hiller and Ray Harryhausen in a bar when they hear that "Uncle Dave"
is shot. "Uncle Dave" is the owner of "Wonderworld" which
is like Disneyland. Uncle Dave is a character modelled loosely after Walt Disney,
the Sherman Brothers' mentor.
The film featured a number of cameos by well
known film directors including Robert B. Sherman, Arthur Hiller, John Singleton,
Joe Dante, special effects legend Ray Harryhausen and George Lucas as a ride patron.
The park is in Santa Clara California and not Beverly Hills as portrayed in
the movie. The Sky Whirl Scene was filmed in a studio and no tunnels run under
the park as many thought after this was released. Many rides have been removed
that were seen in the movie including Triple Play, the Sky Whirl(now a roller
coaster) and the carousel at the back of the park (a single story one, not the
carousel columbia) which somone thought was altered. The single story one was
removed for drop zone.
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