Starring: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Paul Reiser, John Ashton, Bronson Pinchot, Taylour Paige, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mark Pellegrino, Kevin Bacon
OUR RATING: ★★★☆☆
Story: Netflix action comedy sequel directed by Mark Molloy and written by Will Beall, Tom Gormican, and Kevin Etten. Beverly Hills Cop 4: Axel F (2024) follows Detective Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy), who is back on the beat in Beverly Hills. After his daughter, Jane’s (Taylour Paige) life is threatened, she and Foley team up with a new partner, Det. Bobby Abbott (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), and old pals Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and John Taggart (John Ashton) to turn up the heat and uncover a conspiracy.
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Best Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F Quotes
Axel Foley: We have to switch to Plan B.
Mike Woody: This was Plan A?
Mike Woody: I’m chasing bad guys with Axel Foley. Hell, yeah!
Mike Woody: Stop hitting cars!
Axel Foley: There’s a lot of blind spots in a snowplow.
Axel Foley: You’re breaking your cherry!
Mike Woody: No, I want to keep my cherry.
Jeffrey: They don’t want swashbucklers out there anymore. They want social workers.
Axel Foley: I’m terribly social.
Jeffrey: I know you think you got all the time in the world, Axel, but you don’t.
Axel Foley: I probably got more time than you though, right?
Jeffrey: Watch your a** out there, okay? You’re not twenty-two anymore.
Axel Foley: Don’t worry about me. I’m going to be fine. They love me in Beverly Hills.
Axel Foley: You know part of me would rather get locked up for resisting arrest than get put in this little Fisher-Price-looking m*****f***** y’all rolling around in. Y’all are the LEGO cops.
Axel Foley: This isn’t my first time in Beverly Hills.
Det. Bobby Abbott: I saw that. Did you ever read your own file? This is a lot. Disturbing the peace, various shootouts, evading the police. This is from ’84. Then there’s one from ’87. And then ’94. Not your finest hour.
Axel Foley: [to the police department] You sure y’all paying y’all’s bills because this phone don’t work.
Axel Foley: Why haven’t you retired?
Chief John Taggart: Well, I did, you know. But Maureen and I got back together, and trust me, home is the last place I want to be.
Jane Saunders: You went to therapy?
Axel Foley: Now, why is that so shocking that I went to therapy? Well, actually, no. I didn’t go to therapy. But I read some s**t online.
Axel Foley: When I do something like try to teach you how to get out of handcuffs, that’s the same as another parent when they take their kids to the ball game, or give their kids a Slinky, you know?
Axel Foley: Sometimes a parent will do something because they don’t know how to express stuff with words. So they do things. See what I’m saying?
Jane Saunders: And so what is he saying when he stops trying? See what I’m saying?
Axel Foley: I’m Axel Foley, producer of the new Liam Neeson revenge thriller, Impound.
Axel Foley: This is just like Detroit Impound. Except for everything.
Axel Foley: I look like a lawyer.
Jane Saunders: You look like you sell iPhone cases to teenagers at the mall.
Chief John Taggart: Now, wait a minute. I can’t take the thyroid pill with the liver pill? Is that right? Yeah, well, Jesus Christ, Maureen. Relax. I haven’t even taken them yet. And what could go wrong, anyway? My liver’s already clinically dead.
Axel Foley: I do some of my best work when I’m suspended.
Axel Foley: Maybe you should come up with some other s**t than titty monkeys. You can’t be calling Black folks monkeys. Even with that accent, you’ll get f***ed up.
Ashley De La Rosa: Oh, my God. Axel? Ashley? Together, we’d be, “Actually”.
Det. Bobby Abbott: I think it’s healthy to be a little bit nervous walking into a bar full of guns. You’re not nervous at all?
Axel Foley: Bobby, I’m from Detroit. For me, this is like going to Buffalo Wild Wings.
Axel Foley: You f***ing crashed a helicopter, and I’m just finding out that just now?
Det. Bobby Abbott: I’m sorry, I didn’t realize the plan was going to be to steal a chopper off the rooftop of a f***ing police station!
Axel Foley: I didn’t realize that you were so f***ed up at flying helicopters. Otherwise, I would have came up with a different idea.
Det. Bobby Abbott: I told you it was a bad idea!
Axel Foley: [to Abbott] I will shoot you in your face if you don’t fly this helicopter. I will shoot you, then I’m going to shoot myself, because I ain’t dying in no helicopter crash.
Axel Foley: [to Abbott after he’s landed the helicopter] That was good. That was way better than I would have did. Not much better though. But way worse than a real pilot would have did.
Billy Rosewood: You can never have too much firepower.
Jeffrey: Please tell me you didn’t get arrested again.
Axel Foley: Twice, but I broke out.
Axel Foley: Y’all safe? Everybody safe?
Billy Rosewood: I’m good.
Det. Bobby Abbott: There’s no seat belt in the middle.
Axel Foley: F*** a seatbelt! We’re on the edge!
Det. Bobby Abbott: I’ve never been on this end of a pursuit before.
Billy Rosewood: It’s an acquired taste.
Axel Foley: [referring to Abbott] I’m not taking him to the strip club.
Billy Rosewood: Why not?
Axel Foley: He’s had intercourse with my child.
Det. Bobby Abbott: This is awkward.
Chief John Taggart: Jesus Christ, Billy! You look like s**t!
Billy Rosewood: Well they’ve been torturing me for two days. What’s your excuse?
Billy Rosewood: We don’t have to do it right now, but at some point I’d like an apology.
Chief John Taggart: Jesus Christ, Billy. I just saved your life, and I’m about to die for you.
Billy Rosewood: It would just be nice to hear the words.
Axel Foley: [to Billy and Taggart] You two are the worst f***ing surveillance team that ever lived.
Axel Foley: Look, up there is nothing but a bunch of old sick people. Everybody’s hacking, and coughing, and moaning, and groaning, and s**t. You would fit in perfect up here, Taggart.