Beverly Hills Cop Reviews

Fast, enjoyable, often witty action-comedy that made Eddie Muprphy the most popular movie star in the country.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

Simply put, Beverly Hills Cop is one of the best buddy cop movies ever made.

Full Review | Original Score: 10/10

begin charting the legendarily-steep decline of Murphy as a conversation worth having outside the tabloids.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Classic '80s Murphy vehicle; fun but foulmouthed.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Murphy exudes the kind of cheeky, cocky charm that has been missing from the screen since Cagney was a pup, snarling his way out of the ghetto.

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Full Review | Original Score: 7.5/10

It's one of the few star comedies of the early 80s to allot some humor and personality to the minor characters.

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Brash, crude and very funny.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Expectations that Eddie Murphy's street brand of rebelliousness would devastate staid and glittery Beverly Hills are not entirely met in a film that grows increasingly dramatic.

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Murphy at his absolute best.

| Original Score: 4/5

The connecting stuff is just bagatelle.

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Murphy exudes a natural sense of entitlement and superiority that elevates him above the Beverly Hills fops even in his grimy sweatshirt ...

Full Review | Original Score: B

Eddie Murphy looks like the latest victim of the Star Magic Syndrome, in which it is assumed that a movie will be a hit simply because it stars an enormously talented person.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

One of the great popular entertainments of our time, a film that still has a place on the top 40 list of American box-office champs, and continues to look slick and full of energy almost twenty years after opening.

| Original Score: 4/4

Mr. Murphy knows exactly what he's doing, and he wins at every turn.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Loud, long, vulgar.

| Original Score: 2/5

Eddie Murphy is excellent. I can't imagine anyone else starring in this film.

| Original Score: 4/5

Eddie improvs this B-actioner into a classic comedy.

| Original Score: 5/5

An Eddie Murphy classic! One of his best, but not better than "Coming To America."

| Original Score: 4/5

Simplstic formula, delivered with style by a young, fun Eddie Murphy.

| Original Score: 4/5