Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)

Director:

John Landis

Writers (WGA):

Danilo Bach (character) and
Daniel Petrie Jr. (character) ...

Release Date:

25 May 1994 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller

Tagline:

It's on!

Plot:

Axel Foley, while investigating a car theft ring, comes across something much bigger than that: the same men who shot his boss are running a counterfeit money ring out of a theme park in Los Angeles.

Plot Keywords:

Theme Park | Counterfeit | Money | Revenge | Beverly Hills California

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Eddie Murphy	...	Det. Axel Foley
Jon Tenney	...	Levine
Joey Travolta	...	Giolito
Eugene Collier	...	Leppert
Jimmy Ortega	...	Rondell
Ousaun Elam	...	Pederson
Ray Lykins	...	Nixon
Tim Gilbert	...	McKee
Rick Avery	...	Cline
Gilbert R. Hill	...	Insp. Douglas Todd (as Gil Hill)
Dick Purtan	...	Detroit Disc Jockey
Fred Asparagus	...	Bobby
Louis Lombardi	...	Snake
Lindsey Ginter	...	Holloway
Timothy Carhart	...	Ellis De Wald

Also Known As:

Beverly Hills Cop III (Germany) [de]
Beverly Hills kyttä III (Finland) [fi]
Beverly Hills-i zsaru 3. (Hungary) [hu]
Beverly Hillsi võmm 3 (Estonia) [et]
Frækkere end politiet tillader III (Denmark) [da]
Gliniarz z Beverly Hills III (Poland) [pl]
Le flic de Beverly Hills III (France) [fr]
O Caça Polícias III (Portugal) [pt]
O batsos tou Beverly Hills no 3 (Greece) [el]
Policaj z Beverly Hillsa 3 (Slovenia) [sl]
Policajac sa Beverli Hilsa 3 (Serbia) [sr]
Snuten i Hollywood 3 (Sweden) [sv]
Snuten i Hollywood III (Sweden) [sv]
Superdetective en Hollywood III (Spain) [es]
Um Tira da Pesada 3 (Brazil) [pt]
Un detective suelto en Beverly Hills III (Venezuela) [es]
Un detective suelto en Hollywood III (Argentina) [es]
Un piedipiatti a Beverly Hills 3 (Italy) [it]

MPAA:

Rated R for language and some violence.

Runtime:

104 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby SR | Dolby Digital (Dolby 5.1)

Certification:

Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:AA (Ontario) (re-rating) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Canada:R (Ontario) (original rating) | France:U | Finland:K-15 (re-rating) | Canada:14+ (Ontario - 2006) | Canada:14A | South Korea:15 | Philippines:R-18 | USA:R (certificate #32824) | Brazil:12 | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Chile:18 | Finland:K-16 | Germany:16 | Ireland:15 | Netherlands:12 | Norway:15 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | Iceland:16 | Singapore:NC-16

Filming Locations:

Beverly Hills Police Department - 464 N Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills, California, USA

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

The Alien Attack ride that Janice (Theresa Randle) demonstrates to Axel when he first comes to Wonderworld is actually the Earthquake section of the Studio Tour at Universal Studios in Hollywood. The alien robots are similar to the Cylons from "Battlestar Galactica" (1978).

Goofs:

Continuity: The hand that the dead guy in the popcorn holds his gun with.

Quotes:

Axel: You got a fifty dollar bill?
Jon Flint: I got a wife and three kids. I haven't seen a fifty in twelve years.

Movie Connections:

Follows Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)

Soundtrack:

The Place Where You Belong

Where's Jerry Bruckhimer when you need him?

This has to be the worst of the series!! THE WORST!!! The action sequences are a complete joke, as if it were a parody of itself.With Beverly Hills Cop 3, it's like the director forgot this wasn't a music video or a B-Grade horror flick, but an action-comedy....the key word here is: "action", which means realistic gun battles. See, the first two films had cleverly placed comedy relief where it was needed, and it had a very serious gritty side. As far as the dialogue is concerned, PLEASE DON'T ASK!!!! The only element that was pleasing and resembles (not quite,though)the hilarity of the first two movies is when Axel and Rosewood enter a Gun Expo a gaze upon a urban assault weapon with a CD-player and a microwave and the moment when Axel disrupts a speech by Ellis DeWald (the bad guy who killed his boss). THAT'S IT! Of all the people in Hollywood with professional experience to direct a decent action film, and BHC III picks John Landis. Why? And what in the bloody blue hell was he on while he was directing this insult to modern cinema. At least the "Batman" franchise was good through the third movie! What's the deal with this movie being a goddamn amusement park. If it is in Disney-esquire park then make it a "Die Hard" type of fare at least.

Almost everything and I mean EVERYTHING is a discouraging mockery even the car chase at the beginning. Why couldn't the producers and director stick to terrorists and political assassins and have it end a violent Lethal Weapon style shootout/bloodbath in the amusement park. "Hey Landis! Stick to directing cheesy-ass videos for billion-dollar diva musicians!! Sadly, I hate myself for saying this, but as absurd as most of Jerry Bruckhiemer's movies are, this is the only franchise where his sensationalist fantasy is needed the most.