Movie: Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024) Caution; Spoiler Alert

 Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F

Came out; 2024

Time; 1 hr 58 Min

Watched: Netflix

Rated: R for violence, language and brief drug use

IMDB Rating; 6.6/10

Caution; Spoiler Alert

Staring;

Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley

Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Detective Bobby Abbott

Taylous Paige as Jane Saunders

Judge Reinhold as Billy Rosewood

John Ashton as Chief John Taggert

Paul Reiser as Deputy Chief Jeffrey Friedman

Bronson Pinchot as Serge

Kevin Bacon as Captain Cade Grant

Story Line;

Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills after his daughter's life is threatened, and works with old pals John Taggart and Billy Rosewood to uncover a conspiracy

Thoughts:

Did Eddie Murphy need child support money or was he trying to ride the “Prequel, Sequel and re-make” train that's going on in Hollywood?

This was what I expected, it was very on par with the previews Beverly Hills Cop movies.

This was exactly what I expected. My favorite part, when they crash the helicopter on the golf course in front of Shooter McGavin! It's credited as “Christopher McDonald” Golfer, but WE ALL KNOW!!!

CAUTION; Major Spoiler Alert

Thirty years after the Wonder World incident, [a] Axel Foley remains a Detroit police detective under the supervision of his friend, Deputy Chief Jeffrey Friedman. In pursuit of a group of thieves looting the Detroit Red Wings's locker room during a game - Axel's ensuing chase causes costly damage to the city.

Pressured by the police commissioner, Jeffrey announces his retirement. He suggests Axel reconnect with his estranged daughter Jane Saunders, a defense attorney in LA who is under the tutelage of Axel's friend Billy Rosewood, former Beverly Hills Police Officer turned PI.

Rosewood also calls Axel, warning him Jane’s life is in danger. He has been guiding Jane as she represents Enriquez - framed for the murder of undercover officer Copeland. After the call, Rosewood recovers evidence from the vehicle wherein the murder took place, but is kidnapped by the cartel.

Axel returns to Beverly Hills, concerned when Rosewood doesn't respond. In Rosewood’s office, Axel finds a suspicious team searching for something. Axel removes a page out of Rosewood’s agenda, then is chased by the group through Rodeo Drive and is arrested.

Taken to the BHPD, Axel is met by Detective Bobby Abbott, Jane's ex-boyfriend, and reunites with his old friend, John Taggart. Taggart excitedly introduces Axel to Captain Cade Grant, who he mentored as a young police cadet. Upon meeting Grant, Axel distrusts him as he's wearing excessively expensive items for his modest salary.

Jane bails out her father, but resists Axel's attempts to reconnect with her. It is revealed that, during an investigation of a Detroit mafia, Axel and his family were threatened. With Axel's assistance, Jane and her mother moved to Los Angeles decades ago, but the couple divorced and Axel stayed in Michigan.

After convincing Jane to assist him in the case, they are ambushed on Wilshire Boulevard but saved by Abbott. Axel questions Taggart about his operations at the precinct, to which he vehemently defends Grant and his team, shuts out Axel and suspends Abbott.

Without support, the three recover a camera and communication signal jammer in the car where Copeland was murdered – deducing that Grant’s team were looking for an SD card containing evidence. The address Axel found in Rosewood's agenda proves to be a mansion owned by Grant and used as a cartel money laundering corporation.

Axel enlists his friend Serge's help to gain access to the house through a nearby showing. There, Axel finds more evidence that links to Copeland’s murder. Grant is notified of their presence by surveillance. After arguing with Jane, Axel and Abbott interrogate Enriquez’s uncle, Chalino. He tells them that Grant helps protect the cartel, and reveals a drug shipment is leaving the port that night.

Abbott and Axel are framed and arrested for drug possession by Grant. Axel escapes custody and steals a helicopter with a reluctant Abbott’s aid. They fly to the Beverly Hills Police Station where Grant shoots the rotor causing them to crash. Taggart witnesses the incident and is finally convinced of the corruption within his own team. He agrees to assist Jane with the pending investigation, but she is later kidnapped by Grant’s thugs.

Upon a tip from Chalino, Axel and Abbott go to the port where the cartel is operating. They find Rosewood being held there; they free him and are heading to retrieve the SD card Rosewood hid when Grant calls to announce he is holding Jane. With Jeffrey's aid, the trio triangulate her location as being at the cartel mansion.

Axel, Rosewood, and Abbott, soon joined by Taggart, engage in a firefight against Grant’s cartel army. During the fight, Jane escapes captivity. Axel and Grant face-off, in which Axel is shot while protecting Jane, and Grant is shot in the head by Abbott. In the aftermath, Rosewood and Taggart make peace. With the recovered evidence, the charges against Enriquez are dropped.

During his hospitalization, an emotional Jane and Axel make amends, with the possibility of him settling in Los Angeles. A few days later, Axel reunites with both Rosewood and Taggart, who were keeping watch that Axel complete his hospitalization, in which Axel successfully persuades the two to join him out for dinner.