Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
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Summary
30 twelvemonth have blow over between the third moving-picture show andBeverly Hills Cop : Axel F , and quite a lot has come about in Axel Foley ’s life . The first twoBeverly Hills Copmovieswere huge box - office smashes in the 1980s , but the third entry was critically derided and underperformed . Eddie Murphy ’s disfavor of theBeverly Hills Copsequelsalso saw that development on a 4th entry took decade . Murphy did n’t want to make another sequel just for the payday , but finding a history he like proved a hard task .
Netflix’sBeverly Hills Cop : Axel Finjects more of a personal angle , with Foley having to make indemnification with his alienated girl Jane ( Taylour Paige)while investigating his sometime pal Billy Rosewood ’s ( Judge Reinhold ) disappearance . The film let out piddling has changed for Axel personally since he ’s still a renegade cop patrol the streets of Detroit . Axel Favoids overt references toBeverly Hills Cop 3 , though to its credit , it does n’t retcon the wide hated sequel out of existence either .
Axel’s Beverly Hills Cop 3 Romance Didn’t Work Out
Axel F doesn’t reveal what became of wonder world’s Janice
Beverly Hills Cop 3saw Axel take down a counterfeiting ring hide out inside the Disneyland - esque motif park Wonder World . The film gave Murphy ’s Foley his only real sexual love interest in the franchise , with he and Wonder World employee Janice ( Theresa Randle ) having a little romance going . The film close with Janice take Axel to see the " Tunnel of Love , " but as Randle ’s absencefromBeverly Hills Cop : Axel F’scastshows , nothing came of this Romance language .
Theresa Randle was also missing from another 2024 action - comedy subsequence , with her recurring persona as Theresa inBad boy : Ride or Diebeing recast with Tasha Smith .
Janice is neither seen nor mentioned in the Netflix sequel . presumptively , any possible relationship between Axel and Janice was cut short when the former pass back to Detroit . Any working possibility that Janice is the female parent of Jane are also incorrect since Jane was bornbeforethe events ofBeverly Hills Cop 3 .
Axel Moved His Family Out Of Detroit To Protect Them
The introduction of Axel Foley’s family makes the franchise timeline a little odd
Beverly Hills Cop : Axel FMain Cast
Character
Eddie Murphy
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Axel Foley
Joseph Gordon - Levitt
Detective Bobby Abbott
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Judge Reinhold
Billy Rosewood
John Ashton
John Taggart
Kevin Bacon
maitre d' Cade Grant
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Taylour Paige
Jane Saunders
Paul Reiser
Jeffrey Friedman
Bronson Pinchot
Serge
Beverly Hills Cop : Axel Flargely centers around the unmanageable relationship between Axel and Jane . Axel reveals he sent Jane and her female parent away from Detroit when the 12th Street Mafia threaten to get after themto hurt him . Fearing for their guard , he got them out of the urban center , but given Axel ’s habituation to the business , did n’t exit with them . Jane is understandably upset about this , which is one reason they stopped speaking .
Axel Falso reveals Jane is 32 years old , placing her birth about two days beforeBeverly Hills Cop 3 . The fourth outing is vague on the timeline , but it appears Axel was a big part of Jane ’s life during her early years , and was still marital to her mother . However , his romance with Janice during the third plastic film implies he was n’t married at the sentence , and may have already sent Jane and her female parent away . Either that or he was just being unfaithful , though that feels out of fictitious character on Axel ’s part .
Axel & Jane’s Mother Got Divorced
Beverly Hills Cop 4 leaves Jane’s mother a mystery
Given the relative lack of Latinian language in theBeverly Hills Copsaga , the reveal Axel was once married with a child is a bountiful muckle . Axel Fdoesn’t handle it as such , revealing next to nothing about Foley ’s ex - wife , away from her surname , Saunders . Axel does entail that Jane ’s mother has a fierce personality and she disunite him shortly after the Detroit exile . Reading between the lines , it seems the divorcement was due to Axel not get with them and put his jobfirst .
Axel’s Former Partner Jeffrey Became His Boss
Jeffrey replaces the late, great Inspector Todd
An raging political boss is a staple fiber of the cop moving picture genre , where a given action film ’s renegade detective is chew out for creating havoc . TheBeverly Hills Copseries had a standout tempestuous political boss in Inspector Todd , toy by real - life Detroit police force officer Gil Hill . Todd was gunned down duringBeverly Hills Cop 3’sopening shootout , which prompt Axel to head to Beverly Hills to essay his killer . Axel Freveals Foley ’s dweeby former partner Jeffrey ( Paul Reiser ) has since select Todd ’s place as his boss .
Despite his public presentation as Todd being well - obtain , Gil Hill never play out of doors of hisBeverly Hills Copappearances .
Jeffrey does n’t so much masticate Axel out for the destructive snow plow chase that opensBeverly Hills Cop : Axel Fthen warns him he can no longer pull such stunts . In fact , Jeffrey sacrifices his job to bring through Axel ’s , as he ’s worried Foley would have no life if he was fired from the force .
Billy Quit The Force And Became A Private Detective
Judge Reinhold’s beloved Billy Rosewood is back
Billy became disillusioned with the force following a friction with Kevin Bacon ’s Captain Grant , and sack out from the police in protest .
Beverly Hills Cop : Axel Ffeatures the return of several fan favorites , include Judge Reinhold ’s Billy Rosewood . Billy evolved from meek rookie to an adrenaline junkie across the first three movies . Despite being a giving cheese within the Beverly Hills Police Department in part three , he ’s fallen from favour in the decade since . The continuation let out Billy became disillusion with the personnel following a clash with Kevin Bacon ’s Captain Grant , and retire from the constabulary in protest .
Beverly Hills Cop : Axel F ’s soundtrack leans hard on nostalgia with retro songs from the franchise ’s past , with a couple of advanced racetrack thrown in .
In the wake , he became a private tec . One ofBilly ’s investigations kick back the result ofAxel Finto gear , and his fade land Axel and Jane togetherto find out him . Naturally , his font ties into the one the Foleys are looking into .
Taggart Unretired And Became Police Chief Of Beverly Hills
Taggart got bored with golfing
One of the most disastrous decisionsBeverly Hills Cop 3made was dropping John Ashton ’s Taggart , Billy ’s gruff partner . Ashton shared cracking chemistry with Murphy and Reinhold in the first two movies , and was a abject - fundamental scene - thief . Billy explained inBeverly Hills Cop 3that Taggart had retired , but inAxel F , he has become the urban center ’s young Chief of Police .
Taggart further explains to Axel that he unretired due to reuniting with his married woman Maureen , so he had a desire to spendlesstime at home . Becoming Chief makes mother wit for Taggart , consider his many days of experience , though he course gets back in the action inBeverly Hills Cop : Axel F’sexplosive endingshootout .
Billy And Taggart Became Estranged
Beverly Hills Cop’s besties fell out over a case
Given how long they were partners , it ’s a shocker to learn Billy and Taggart are alienated inAxel F.They split due to Taggart backing Bacon ’s villain Grant in a previous case , involving the latter dropping a drugs charges against corporate trust membersBilly had nail . Grant was a former protege of Taggart ’s , who refuse to consider Billy ’s claims he was crooked . Hurt over his former partner ’s decision , Billy stop but get looking into Grant ’s activities in his own time .
Axel’s Daughter Jane Became A Beverly Hills Criminal Defense Attorney
Jane’s job is another reason she and Axel stopped talking to each other
Jane has the same speciality and determination as her Church Father , even if they ’re not that near . She works as a vicious defense attorney in Beverly Hills , which does n’t make her popular with the police . After working on a case for Billy , she ’s targeted by Grant ’s men . This is partly what brings Axel back to the urban center , and they jar over her choice of professing - defending criminals - which feels like a slight against his career .
Axel And Jane Stopped Speaking
The Foleys had been radio silent for years
The human relationship between Axel and Jane is essentially rock’n’roll bottom whenBeverly Hills Cop : Axel Fstarts . They had n’t seen or spoken in five years , and Axel had to be drive by Jeffrey and Billy to talk to his daughter . In general , the subsequence ’s story revolve around Foley coming to suitcase with his age and mentation of a life outside the job . For her part , Jane ca n’t forgive how absent Axel was from her life and how he take Detroit over her .
By the end ofBeverly Hills Cop : Axel F , the two have reconciled and it looks like Axel will be visiting more often . Murphy has already stated that apossibleBeverly Hills Cop 5is in the employment , so his reconnection with Jane is the arrant excuse to bring him back to the city for more misadventure .
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Cast
Beverly Hills Cop : Axel Foley is the 4th film in the popular drollery dealership starring Eddie Murphy . white potato paying back as Axel Foley in the Netflix moving picture alongside returning throw away member Judge Reinhold and John Ashton and Bronson Pinchot as Serge . Kevin Bacon and Joseph Gordon - Levitt also asterisk in the sequel as new characters .
