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The New Beverly Hills Cop Is a Predictable Retread, and I Don’t Care
You can (justifiably) complain about its flaws, or you can relax and groove on its recycled rhythms.
Co-written by Will Beall, co-writer of Bad Boys: Ride or Die, and Tom Gormican and Kevin Etten, who wrote The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent together, this attempt to revive a franchise that has sat dormant for the past 30 years goes out of its way to incorporate all the familiar things from the original three films. That includes Paige as well as Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a Beverly Hills officer who teams up with Murphy; Kevin Bacon as a member of the force who oozes excessive slickness; and Luis Guzmán in a banger of a cameo as a drug dealer whose facial hair is a glittery shade of blue. In his feature directorial debut, Mark Malloy keeps things moving at a proper clip and demonstrates a commitment to staging car chases that destroy a truly absurd number of motor vehicles, yet another throwback to the ’80s and ’90s movies that first launched the series.
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