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From the Archives: David Denby on Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
“Murphy overwhelms everyone, even himself, with his gift of gab. He wants the world to be a faster place…”
That he’s young, Black, obscure, and dressed in a high-school phys-ed-department sweatshirt doesn’t hurt him one bit: He’s so aware of the way he fits into the society that he can turn his low status to his own advantage. Brest isn’t slick; he doesn’t worry about “pacing.” In the early Detroit scenes, he makes the squalid city and the murder of Foley’s friend a lot grittier than you’d expect. Entering the art gallery owned by the slimy Mr. Big, Foley encounters Serge (Bronson Pichot), an émigré from somewhere with a baffling, silky manner and a curious accent.
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