Beverly Hills Cop II
Beverly Hills Cop II is a 1987 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Tony Scott, written by Larry Ferguson and Warren Skaaren, and starring Eddie Murphy. It is the sequel to the 1984 film Beverly Hills Cop and the second installment in the Beverly Hills Cop film series. Murphy returns as Detroit police detective Axel Foley, who reunites with Beverly Hills detectives Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and John Taggart (John Ashton) to stop a robbery/gun-running gang after Captain Andrew Bogomil (Ronny Cox) is shot and seriously wounded.
Plot
Beverly Hills Police Captain Andrew Bogomil, Detective Billy Rosewood, and Sergeant John Taggart are trying to figure out who is behind the "Alphabet Crimes", a series of mostly high-end-store robberies distinguished by their monogrammed envelopes with an alphabetical sequence the assailants leave behind. Complicating matters is the new "political" state of the Beverly Hills Police Department, headed by incompetent, egotistical and verbally abusive new police chief Harold Lutz, who is doing everything he can to stay on Mayor Ted Egan's good side. Furious when Rosewood calls the FBI to help solve the case, Lutz holds Bogomil responsible as commanding officer and suspends him, despite Bogomil's efforts to convince the chief that Rosewood was only following a hunch. Lutz also punishes Taggart and Rosewood by placing them on traffic duty. On the way home, Bogomil is shot and injured by Karla Fry, the chief enforcer of Maxwell Dent, who is secretly the mastermind behind the Alphabet Crimes. After hearing about the shooting on a news report, Axel Foley secretly abandons his current undercover duties and immediately flies out to Beverly Hills to help find out who shot Bogomil, finding Taggart and Rosewood all too happy to assist him.
Awards
Cast
- Allen Garfield
- Brian O'Connor
- Brigitte Nielsen
- Chris Rock
- Dean Stockwell
- Eddie Murphy
- Gil Hill
- Gilbert Gottfried
- Glenn Withrow
- Hugh Hefner
- John Ashton
- John Hostetter
- Judge Reinhold
- Jürgen Prochnow
- Paul Guilfoyle
- Paul Reiser
- Rebecca Ferratti
- Robert Pastorelli
- Robert Ridgely
- Ronny Cox
- Tom Bower
- Valerie Wildman
More details
| author | David Giler Dennis Klein Larry Ferguson Warren Skaaren |
|---|---|
| award | Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song |
| contentLocation | California Detroit Los Angeles Playboy Mansion |
| director | Tony Scott |
| editor | Billy Weber Chris Lebenzon Michael Tronick |
| genre | action comedy |
| keywords | ammunition arms dealer automag axel foley beverly hills beverly hills police department cancel commanding officer discover fbi agent hear injured insurance agent kill news report oil field plan police captain police chief police department shoot solve |
| musicBy | Harold Faltermeyer |
| nomination | Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song |
| producer | Don Simpson Jerry Bruckheimer |
| productionCompany | Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |
| recordedAt | Playboy Mansion |
| theme | action comedy buddy comedy buddy cop police comedy sequel |