"Beverly Hills Cop III" is the last film of a series that began 10 years earlier. New film star, Eddie Murphy, was a popular comedian who was beginning to hit and miss with his films by this time. Watching this movie again these years later, I could see the decline. This one still fared well at the box office, but nothing like the first two films. This year was a year for some great and many very good movies, including some comedies and animated films.
By the midd-1990s, raucous was giving way to goofy, if still somewhat crass plots in comedies. But, comedies were fewer and not as highly rated as other films. And, with a few exceptions (i.e., "Schindler's List," "Philadelphia") drama and mysteries were giving way to animated films as well as the fast action, thriller and crime flicks.
For this third and apparent last in the series of Beverly Hills Cop, Murphy and Paramount couldn't get - or didn't go after any of the rest of the original cast except for Gilbert Hill. The non-professional actor, but real-time career law enforcement Hill, had just a short stint early in this film until his character, Inspector Douglas Todd, is shot and killed.
The all-new cast of mostly little known or recognized actors was okay with what they had. But the plot is a far out one, the screenplay isn't good at all, and the story goes the way of outlandish fiction. A Wonder World setting that is supposed to imitate Disneyland doesn't do much for the film. Uncle Dave Thornton is played by Alan Young. He's supposed to be a type of Walt Disney. These obvious efforts of the film to create some identify mostly fall flat.
More mayhem, violence, profanity and crudity mark this one. There isn't enough humor here to make it worthwhile to sit through this film.
By the midd-1990s, raucous was giving way to goofy, if still somewhat crass plots in comedies. But, comedies were fewer and not as highly rated as other films. And, with a few exceptions (i.e., "Schindler's List," "Philadelphia") drama and mysteries were giving way to animated films as well as the fast action, thriller and crime flicks.
For this third and apparent last in the series of Beverly Hills Cop, Murphy and Paramount couldn't get - or didn't go after any of the rest of the original cast except for Gilbert Hill. The non-professional actor, but real-time career law enforcement Hill, had just a short stint early in this film until his character, Inspector Douglas Todd, is shot and killed.
The all-new cast of mostly little known or recognized actors was okay with what they had. But the plot is a far out one, the screenplay isn't good at all, and the story goes the way of outlandish fiction. A Wonder World setting that is supposed to imitate Disneyland doesn't do much for the film. Uncle Dave Thornton is played by Alan Young. He's supposed to be a type of Walt Disney. These obvious efforts of the film to create some identify mostly fall flat.
More mayhem, violence, profanity and crudity mark this one. There isn't enough humor here to make it worthwhile to sit through this film.