Beverly Hills Cop movies
I have written several posts that address the recent theme of rebooting old franchises so now it does not seem rare to see an entry to a film series that was popular thirty or forty years ago, even with the same lead actor and character. Mel Gibson continues to promise that a Lethal Weapon 5 is coming (which I'll believe when I see it) and this year we get the fourth installment of the Beverly Hills Cop franchise, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. Spoilers below: A unique feature of this franchise is the sequels have no real following. All the love and most of the quoted lines comes from the superb original. Each sequel tries to recapture the charm of what is ultimately a fairly straightforward fish-out-of-water story. I think the title has handcuffed the franchise as each film is about a Detroit police detective named Axel Foley who goes to Beverly Hills to solve a crime that has impacted him personally and brushes up against local culture and to some degree, authorities. If the seq