JOHN LANDIS explains what went wrong
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Beverly Hills Cop III
dragonstephen-1 — 13 years ago(October 21, 2012 07:31 AM)
there is an interview on you tube in a q and a where Landis talks about how Eddie Murphy wanted to be more mature and John said well Axel is a smart ass.so there was a big debate about the tone of the movie
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06986 — 13 years ago(March 13, 2013 07:06 PM)
I read the original script and writers wanted a darker more violent movie for the 3rd one but at the end that was rejected and they went the complete opposite direction and made it a more safe almost light hearted family like feel despite it still being rated R.
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directorscut — 11 years ago(May 25, 2014 02:51 PM)
there is an interview on you tube in a q and a where Landis talks about how Eddie Murphy wanted to be more mature and John said well Axel is a smart ass.so there was a big debate about the tone of the movie
This doesn't explain why the film looks like a TV movie. What's Landis's excuse for that?
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I_Guard_Tanelorn — 11 years ago(June 15, 2014 01:20 PM)
It's not a very good movie, even ignoring the first two flicks. The script is stale, the acting is two dimensional, the camera shots are very static, the soundtrack sounds like a tv show, there's just no life in the movie.
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Anorensic — 11 years ago(July 31, 2014 12:44 PM)
They just landed in the no man's land, nor here nor there in the beginning when Foley's boss Insp. Todd is killed, he comically comes back to life to deliver a line.. This was unfunny and considering Insp. Todd is a long time played character in the BHC series, his death should have been dealt with more seriously if they were going for a serious tone or not.
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freshboy3001 — 11 years ago(December 01, 2014 02:37 AM)
Yep, the tone of the movie was all over the place. One moment it was quite morbid and the next it was light-hearted. It just didn't work. I'm pretty sure there were themes in the movie about US corporate and government corruption and how they put on this nice, pretty image to the world to cover up their dark underbelly sorta thing. But they weren't successful in portraying that either. On the whole, the trilogy does not hold up today. The first film is good, but they just kept getting worse. Eddie Murphy can get annoying too.
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Fmartiterron — 11 years ago(December 07, 2014 09:47 AM)
Whatever were Landis' one-set problems with Eddie Murphy, he's also to blame for this failure. The film looks like it's been directed by a computer! The action bits have little muscle, the laughs just aren't there, and all the directions the actors seem to have been given are: Be on frame and say your dialogue.
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AnotherMartiniPaul — 9 years ago(August 10, 2016 03:35 AM)
Not for today's standards, save for maybe the Spider scene, and even that's nothing special.
I never considered it to look like a TV movie, but after the poster above described it that way, I can see where he's coming from. The movie has a very bland look and feel to it. Someone else mentioned the direction seemed to just be "stand there and say your lines," and that's pretty accurate.
A lot of scenes have a very cheap feel to them (like all scenes backstage at Wonderworld). It looks really bad that Ashton and Cox didn't rejoin the cast, and that Simpson/Bruckheimer didn't produce this one, as they did the other two. The comedy is almost completely gone, and is in no way like that of the other films. Whatever comedy is in this film drags on and on and/or falls flat (the Serge scene is lifeless and neverending, and Axel's few one-liners are given and followed by a weird silence here, whereas in the other films, he's so full of energy that he's already onto the next joke instead). There's weird, discordant comedy from other characters, like the silly, weird opening dance routine in the body shop. Judge Reinhold looks puffy and old, and whatever charm he had earlier is gone. He just comes across as weird in this movie, and somewhat annoying.
I loved the movie as a kid, but revisiting it as an adult makes it clear that it was really not on par with the other two.