
Beverly Hills Cop III is an action-comedy film, which was directed by John Landis . The film is the sequel to Beverly Hills Cop from 1984 and Beverly Hills Cop II from 1987. The film was released to the cinemas in the USA on 25 May 1994.[1]
Plot[]
Detroit Police Department detective Axel Foley plans to arrest a car theft ring at a chop shop. Unbeknownst to his superior, Inspector G. Douglas Todd, Axel cancels his SWAT backup, planning to use only his team for the raid. Meanwhile, a group of four men arrive at the chop shop to pick up a stolen box truck; the leader of the group confirms the truck still has its cargo—crates apparently belonging to the U.S. government—then has his men execute the car thieves. The group prepares to leave when Axel and his team launch their raid, but are outgunned. Todd, arriving moments later, is killed by the group's leader. When the group flees in the box truck, Axel gives chase in one of the partially disassembled cars from the shop, but is intercepted by Secret Service Agent Steve Fulbright, who informs Axel that the killer must remain on the loose because the federal government is pursuing a larger scheme in which he is involved.
After Todd's funeral, Axel learns that several clues left behind by the killers point to Wonder World, a theme park in Beverly Hills, California, owned by "Uncle Dave" Thornton. Axel arrives in Beverly Hills and reunites with his friend Billy Rosewood, now promoted to "Deputy Director of Operations for Joint Systems Interdepartmental Operational Command" (DDO-JSIOC), and meets Jon Flint, Billy's new partner after John Taggart's retirement. Flint calls his friend Ellis DeWald, head of Wonder World's park security, to let him know that Axel is coming to the park for his investigation.
Axel befriends Janice Perkins, a park employee, whilst touring the park's underground behind-the-scenes facilities. He is observed by security, then shot at and attacked hand-to-hand. Axel retreats to the surface, where he cuts in line to enter the Spider Ferris wheel ride. Axel rescues two children from the Spider after the guards accidentally jam the ride and is brought to park manager Orrin Sanderson. When DeWald is called in to contest the claim that Axel was attacked by the security guards without prior challenge, Axel recognizes DeWald as Todd's killer, but Rosewood and Flint refuse to believe that claim because of DeWald's impeccable public reputation. Later, Axel is visited in his motel room by Uncle Dave and Janice, who inform him that the Wonder World park's designer and Dave's close friend, Roger Frye, has mysteriously disappeared while inspecting the grounds two weeks earlier, leaving only a letter with a cryptic message.
Axel and Rosewood attend a banquet to honor DeWald as private law enforcement officer of the year and meet Axel's old friend Serge; meanwhile, the box truck is located at the Santa Monica Pier, having been repaired and spray painted. Axel tries to heckle DeWald into revealing his criminal activities, despite continued admonishments by Fulbright, but DeWald resists Axel's attempts. Later, Axel digs deeper into a closed-off section of the park and learns DeWald and Sanderson are using Wonder World as a front for a counterfeiting ring; DeWald was at the chop shop in Detroit to collect mint paper stored in the truck. That evening, Axel meets with Uncle Dave to ask him about further details to find a piece of viable evidence, and discovers that Frye's warning letter is actually written on a sheet of the stolen mint paper. Before he can make use of that evidence, Uncle Dave is shot and wounded by DeWald, and Axel is framed for his shooting.
After getting away from DeWald and bringing Uncle Dave to Willshire Memorial Hospital, Axel sets out to prove his innocence by storming the park, calling Rosewood and Flint to assist him. The ensuing shootout kills DeWald's henchmen, and after a hand-to-hand fight Axel shoots and kills DeWald, avenging Inspector Todd. During the fight, Sanderson is killed in the print shop by Agent Fulbright, who appears before Axel to explain that he was right. Axel realizes Agent Fulbright is involved with the counterfeiters and fatally shoots him after a brief struggle. Uncle Dave makes a full recovery, and he thanks Axel for his assistance by creating a new character for Wonder World with his name, "Axel Fox", while Axel begins a relationship with Janice.
Cast[]
- Eddie Murphy as Detective Axel Foley
- Judge Reinhold as Sergeant Billy Rosewood
- Hector Elizondo as Detective Jon Flint
- Timothy Carhart as Ellis DeWald
- John Saxon as Orrin Sanderson
- Theresa Randle as Janice Perkins
- Alan Young as Uncle Dave Thornton
- Stephen McHattie as Secret Service Agent Steve Fulbright
- Bronson Pinchot as Serge
- Gil Hill as Inspector Douglas Todd
- Jon Tenney as Detective Levine
- Lindsey Ginter as Holloway
- Dan Martin as Cooper
- Al Green as Minister
- Joey Travolta as Giolito
- Hattie Winston as Mrs. Todd
- Helen Martin as Grandma
- Tracy Melchior as Ticket Booth Lady
- Eugene Collier as Leppert
- Forry Smith as Rondy
- Gregory McKinney as Kimbrough
- David Parry as Taddeo
- Michael Bowen as Fletch
- Symba Smith as Annihilator Girl #1
- Julie Strain as Annihilator Girl #2
- Heather Elizabeth Parkhurst as Annihilator Girl #3
- John Singleton as Fireman
- George Lucas as Disappointed Man
- Arthur Hiller as Bar Patron #1
- Ray Harryhausen as Bar Patron #2
- Robert B. Sherman as Bar Patron #3
- Richard M. Sherman as Wonderworld Bandleader (deleted scenes)