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8) Beverly Hills Cop - B

I had a huge amount of nostalgia for this movie going into it, and it was one of the few rewatches that wasn't really tainted. I mean, ok. This isn't the best movie on the list and it isn't the funniest and it is pretty safe overall. It does have shades of "replacement level 80s action movie", right? You know those AI programs that are like "hey we scanned all members of congress and this is what a composite of them would look like"? I feel like Beverly Hills Cop might be the end result of what happens if you do the same thing to 80s cop films.

But after getting used to what common tropes are in the genre now, this one almost felt refreshing. Do you know how excited I was when the twist was there was no freaking twist? When they actually just told this story they were building up and didn't go "HEY THE POLICE CHIEF WAS IN ON IT THE WHOLE TIME SURPRISED SUCKERS?" Was it a bit predictable? Maybe, but honestly I didn't care. Sometimes I just want to enjoy the story without trying to figure out who is who's secret twin brother twice removed from foster care, and I think they did a good job with what they were trying to achieve.

So, while it might not haven been something revolutionary, you know what I thought this was? Enjoyable. I really liked that opening chase scene and man do I appreciate some classic "hey lets just run into a bunch of cars" action scenes. Eddie Murphy is really good here and I liked the buddy cop dynamics with the Judge Reinhold and not Judge Reinhold. I'm not sure anything here was really laugh out loud funny, but it all fell into that next category of "smile out quiet" amusing. I thought the action and the comedy were well balanced, anchored by a couple of key performances. Simple formula but really well executed.