Everyone knows Eddie Murphy and knows his first two BH films. Everyone knows Steven Segal or should know many of his films if you're a martial arts fanatic. Segal isn't a trained actor, not like any of these films, yet I can name a couple movies he did like Half Past Dead for example where the action and the storyline was more interesting than this flop.Beverly Hills Cop 1 & 2 were solid in wise ass comedy and action packed to the mill. This one had plenty of solid action, a few unreal moments but not overly done throughout the film, but it lacked the luster of the other films.The stage direction given to the film and the actors were total crap. Theresa Rhandle is a damn good actress. She proved that in Bad Boys I & II, but what she had to work with in her character here didn't pan out. It seemed more forced for her to be in the film other than being an attractive amusement park ride operator and public relations employee with the hots for Foley.Hector Elizondo's role, Detective Flint - for a guy who been on the force for over 2 decades and a personal friend to Ellis DeWald, there should have been certainly a real struggle there. Flint was put in to play a stronger character with an internal debate, but the writers and Elizondo didn't get the job done. I would wrote a few more scenes there between DeWald and Elizondo to make it more complicated too.DeWald, Tim Carhart, had a decent presence as the bad guy, but he looked more like a con man and less like a psychotic killer. More ruthlessness would have been recommended. He needed to show more of a betrayal between him & his partners, Uncle Dave, & Flint and it wasn't there. Not much depth there.Eddie Murphy's girly laugh belongs more in The Nutty Professor. I'm sure he knew that, but they still had him act like a silly childish man when he confronts DeWald at the Private Security Awards Banquet. That was plain buffoon and wasn't necessary. He would have been better acting like a hysterical S.O.B. as he did when he confronted Dent in BHII.

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't say, this third film in the 'Beverly Hills Cop' series, was good, because it's clearly not, but it's not as bad, as people make it out to be. This movie directed by John Landis is a guilty pleasure of mine. I love the whole amusement park, idea with its unique location, action scene pieces & stunt work. It is pretty impressive at the time, even some of those sequences were ruin by bad background effects, trigger happy security guards and awful stunt dummies. I also love that, it was filmed in California's 'Great America' theme park & Universal Studios Hollywood. This film wasn't generic, like certain people, say it was. It was very weird to see, the inner working of a theme park, back then. I kinda dig that. Plus, the humor that comes with it, works, as it really did satire Disneyland, quite well. Add the fact, that the movie has famous fantasy directors cameos, throughout the park scenes like George Lucas, Joe Dante & Ray Harryhausen make it somewhat fun to watch. Yet, I do, wish the whole investigation part of the film was better. I didn't like how, the resourceful, street-smart, Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) didn't use, too much of his iconic clever ways to get in and out of trouble. It was too easy for him. The hero, solve it, way too quickly. Even, his help, comes, really out of the blue, like park attendant, Janice (Theresa Randle) Their whole love interest, with each other, really comes out of nowhere. It's so forced. Another problem, with this film, is the fact that it's no longer, a flesh fish-out-of-water story. It has become routine and formulaic. Like really, what are the odds that the same Detroit cop, would return to the same location, in hope of solving a murder, for three different cases. That part of the story has really become, so clichés, tiresome, and somewhat bland. During the script's early drafts, the film's plot was going to be somewhat new, with Foley, Det. Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold), Sgt. Taggart (John Ashton) and Det. Jeffrey Friedman (Paul Reiser) going to London to rescue Captain Bogomil (Ronny Cox) who was being held hostage by terrorists, during an International Police Convention. It would be nice to see, what that film would have been like. After all, I heard that the Axel-in-London idea would likely have, actors, Sean Connery or John Cleese played him, Scotland Yard counterpart. Even, a crossover film with Paul Hogan as Crocodile Dundee in New York City was up on the table. However, numerous problems such as scripting issues, like the concept being too close to the storyline of the Michael Douglas's 1989 film, 'Black Rain' and budgeting caused this script to scrap by producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, in order to do the much more expensive Wonder World plot. Original estimated at $55 million, production was temporarily shut down to allow the Paramount top brass the chance to get to grips with the film's spiraling budget. It soon become clear, that the film has really went over the budget, excess of $70 million. Of that budget, $15 million was Eddie Murphy's paycheck. To make it, much worst, pre-production to drag out to the point where both John Aston, Paul Reiser and Ronny Cox had to drop out due to obligations to other pending film projects. Bogomil's part was re-written as John Flint (Héctor Elizondo), and dialogue was inserted to explain that Taggart had retired, but not for Bogomil or Reiser's character, Jeffery. Because of this, the absence of these three characters, were somewhat felt. Yet, I have to say, Elizondo did pretty good in his role, to fill up, their roles, even if the script didn't do much, with his character. Plus, both Ashton and Cox have subtle cameos in this film in the form of a picture on Rosewood's desk of Foley, Taggart, Rosewood, and Bogomil on a fishing trip. It's suck that Reiser doesn't even get that. One surprising minor character that did return for this film, was Serge (Bronson Pinchot) from the original movie, who became a gun dealer in this. It's nice to see him, back, but the magic between him and Murphy has clearly die down, as it wasn't as funny as the first time. Despite what, Bronson Pinchot says about Murphy being depressed, during filming. I have to say, Eddie Murphy still makes this movie somewhat watchable. The jokes weren't half bad. I kinda laugh at Axel, even if Murphy wasn't trying that hard to make us, laugh. There were still, a small bit of his trademark wiseass snark in the film. It wasn't all depressing. I just wish, Murphy didn't felt that Beverly Hill Cop III was the movie that he would start to act like a serious mature actor. It clearly wasn't the best choice, as he later, regret, not allowing the 'edginess' of Axel to kick it in this film. He says, he can only hope to reprise the role, in the near-future. Talks of a fourth film have been going on for the past few years. I really don't see it, happening soon since Landis and Murphy both refuse to work with each other and somewhat semi-retired, since then, but who knows, what the future may bring. Maybe, one day in the future, we might hear the iconic 'Beverly Hills Cop' theme song from composer, Harold Faltermeyer once more, but until then, I have to say, 'Beverly Hills Cop III' was indeed the weakest of the three, but it's far from being the worst Eddie Murphy movie, out-there. Overall: I think it, deserve another watch. 'Beverly Hills Cop III' still has some laughs to be had.

Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy), 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.This film generally gets a bad rap, being accused of being the worst in the series. Even director John Landis has distanced himself, saying that Murphy was going through a rough time in his life and was not giving it everything he had. These may be fair comments, but the film is still better than given credit for.Maybe not as funny as the first two, and maybe Murphy is more toned down, but there is still plenty of fun here from Bronson Pichot and others... not to mention an overall decent script. Even just trying to identify the director cameos is a fun game.

I hoped that this would be also like the two previous films action , comedy with a few words another hit in generally. I was very disappointing seeing this : 1.First of All - It has a few jokes and very less comedy 2.The movie was like a Disneyland Creation 3.The most weak performance by Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop Series 4.The real action that can be called is in the beginning the other actions that were absolutely ridiculous 5.There were a few moments and a few stuff that made it a little bit more to watch but it's maybe the worst film that Eddie made . Really disappointed by Eddie I give this movie 5.9 out of 10 and just because Axel Foley was in it :D