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:

Production was temporarily shut down to allow the Paramount top brass the chance to get to grips with the film's spiraling budget. Originally estimated at $55 million, it was soon in excess of $70 million. Of that budget, $15 million was Eddie Murphy's paycheck.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Foley first sees the room where the counterfeit money is being printed, De Wald sees his full body reflection in the mirror. But clearly the mirror is not at such an angle to see Foley's full body, maybe just his feet.

Quotes:

Axel: Boss, I cancelled the SWAT team.
Todd: You what? I wouldn't raid a church bingo game without SWAT.

Movie Connections:

Follows Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)

Soundtrack:

Isn't It Romantic

Implausible mediocrity.

How Landis, Lucas, and even Murphy lent themselves to this debacle is beyond me. Maybe it wouldn't have been so bad if the many implausibilities didn't make it such a departure from the first movie, which I thought was very good.

The one armed rescue from the ferris wheel? Come on! No one has that kind of strength. And how did he escape burning his hand on the rope? How come all the bad guys, who were supposedly from the best security firm in California, couldn't hit the side of a barn with their uzis yet Axel and Co. hit dead center with virtually all of their shots? How did Axel produce counterfeit money with his image on it in like 10 seconds? How come the security guards gave Axel so much hassle when he first tried to enter the park, yet when he enters the corporate center , he is unfettered? The list goes on and on.

Now, I know what you are saying. "It's a movie!" "It's not supposed to be real." But you see, the first episode of the series was quite plausible, and in contrast, made the this third film highly suspect and therefore subject to ridicule.

Suffice it to say, we won't be seeing BHC IV any time soon. Thank God!