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Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F review: A pleasing nostalgia trip, writes BRIAN VINER
None of the Beverly Hills Cop sequels have matched the original, and the same is true of this latest Netflix effort, the first for 30 years. And yet it's genuine fun, all the same.
On the whole, first-time director Mark Molloy astutely abides by Murphy's law: give rascally Axel enough funny lines (co-writer Will Beall is himself a former Los Angeles detective) and daft escapades (which here involve a stolen helicopter, golf cart and 10-ton truck) and he will keep the show on the road. In a grim Reagan-era Los Angeles, Maxine wants to break out of porn and is auditioning for a horror film called The Puritan II, which might bring her the stardom she craves and is directed by an imperious Brit played by Elizabeth Debicki. Deftly, and not a little mischievously, West keeps these two strands interlocking, with repeated nods to bygone Hollywood, as when Maxine grinds out her cigarette on the pavement star dedicated to Theda Bara — silent cinema's original vamp.
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