“Beverly Hills Cop” is a hilarious comedy / murder mystery starring Eddie Murphy as Inspector Axel Foley, a former car thief turned cop. This is my favorite movie starring Eddie Murphy. He does an excellent job as an actor in this movie and his courtesy routines are among the best.

The film begins in Detroit, where Axel Foley works as an undercover cop. He tries to arrest a couple of drug dealers on his own and ends up being mistakenly arrested and detained by his own department, following a major manhunt involving a large amount of property damage. His boss is about to fire him.

Soon after, Axel receives a visit from his old friend Mikey, who is still involved in the crime. Mikey shows Axel some untraceable German bonds that he has stolen from his new workplace in Beverly Hills, but Axel ignores him and the two go to the bar. When they return, Axel is knocked unconscious and Mikey ends up being killed by a hit man. Once he recovers, Axel wants to investigate the crime, but his boss won’t let him. He tells his boss he needs a vacation, which he gets, but they tell him that if he investigates Mikey’s murder, he can forget to come back.

Axel drives his dilapidated 1969 Chevy Nova to Beverly Hills. He manages to get into a fancy hotel fooling the clientele. From the beginning, he suspects the murder of Mikey’s boss, Victor Maitland, so he goes to his office to question him, but Victor’s guards pick him up and throw him out the window. Later, the police come and arrest Axel, having told him that he jumped out of the window. Soon after, the police find out that Axel is a cop, so they release him into their custody. Axel’s friend Jeanette comes to rescue him.

Over the next few days, Axel collects evidence of a drug scam organized by Maitland. Detectives Taggert and Rosewood, two detectives from Beverly Hills, try to follow him, but he manages to get away from them twice, first by secretly placing a banana in his exhaust pipe. The second time he sneaks up on them and convinces them to join him at a strip bar, where Axel arrests an armed robber.

Axel manages to meet Victor at his private club, where he threatens him and ends up being taken away once more. Axel almost convinces the police to investigate Victor, but the police chief insists that they escort him out of town. As Rosewood drives him out, Axel finally convinces him to investigate Victor. They go to his warehouse along with Jeanette, where they discover a box full of cocaine. Rosewood is waiting outside in her car when Victor and his guard Mike enter the warehouse and discover Axel and Jenny. Victor kidnaps Jeanette while Mike tortures Axel.

After several minutes, Rosewood finally enters the warehouse and saves Axel. The two then follow Victor to his mansion. Taggert soon joins them there. He tries to stop them, but finally agrees to help them. Taggert and Rosewood end up hiding behind a barrier and fighting a group of armed guards outside the compound, while Axel searches for Victor and Mike inside. Axel finds and kills Mike. He later finds Victor with a gun pointed at Jeanette’s head, but Axel manages to shoot him with the help of Lieutenant Andrew Bogomil, who shows up at the last minute.

Everything ends well for Axel and Jenny. Lieutenant Bogomil makes up a compelling story of how the arrest occurred and writes a good report for him to send to Axel’s boss in Detroit, so he can keep his job.

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