Continuity mistake: The guy in the armored car's passenger seat disappears and reappears during the chase.
Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
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Directed by: Tony Scott
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Ronny Cox, Brigitte Nielsen, Jurgen Prochnow, John Ashton
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9.6/10.A sequel that brilliantly matches if not surpasses its predecessor.Sequels have that problem because the first movie was so good it's hard to match.A lot of the time they either flounder or stink.This one though is an example of doing a sequel right like Shrek 2 or The Empire Strikes Back.Eddie Murphy's one of the funniest guys ever to grace the big screen, He's the perfect example of someone who moved from TV to the big screen effortlessly.If anything, I found him reprising Axel Foley great.Beverly Hills Cop 2 is one sequel that matches and surpasses the original movie with ease.
More mistakes in Beverly Hills Cop II
Axel Foley: Well, sir, you have 25 unpaid parking tickets and it's your car, so we have to take you in.
Sidney Bernstein: Wait a second, I've got an idea. Is there something that I have, in this office, that I could hand to you and that would, make you...kinda forget that you're holding those, uh, little pink tickets there?
Axel: What are you trying to say, sir?
Sidney: Like, you'd be holding something in that hand, and this hand you'd forget about. This hand you'd be concentrating on. That hand you'd go, what, what did I have there? I don't even remember.
Axel: What, you mean, like, if I had um... $200 in this hand?
Sidney: Ouch! Let go of my arm. $200? Ouch! Please, I'm robbing you. That's what I'm doing. Here's one, here's two. They're real crisp.
Trivia: In the scene where Foley first visits Rosewood's apartment, he at some point pauses and looks at a poster of Sylvester Stallone from the movie "Cobra" (1986). Stallone was originally supposed to star in Beverly Hills Cop (the first one) as Axel Foley (or his name was going to be Axel "The Cobra" Cobretti). The script was changed for Eddie Murphy, removing a large amount of the action sequences from the movie. Many of those sequences were later used in "Cobra." The shot of Foley looking at the poster is a reference to this fact.