Beverly Hills Cop 4 Looks To Disappoint, Ratner-Style

Posted by: Matt

More details are now available on the movie that should never be: Beverly Hills Cop 4 or “Beverly Hills Cop 2009″ as director Brett Ratner (infamous director of Rush Hours 1, 2, & 3) would like you to call it. Latino Review had a chance to review the script and their reaction shouldn’t surprise anyone:

It’s been 15 years since Axel Foley was last in Beverly Hills, and screenwriters Michael Brandt and Derek Haas needed a good reason to bring him back. That reason comes just a couple of pages into the latest script for Beverly Hills Cop IV (which calls itself Beverly Hills Cop 2009) – Judge Reinhold’s Billy Rosewood takes a leap out the 20th story of the Los Angeles Police HQ. When Axel hears that his former partner and best buddy became sidewalk salad he knows it wasn’t a suicide and he flies to Beverly Hills to get all the facts for himself.

Blah, blah, blah. Foley spends 2 hours running around with a fat, rookie cop who has the hots for another officer way out of his league. Foley helps land hot-cop in fat-cop’s lap while nabbing his buddy’s killer. Sha-zam!

Overall, LR says the script isn’t horrible, but it isn’t great either:

The basic story of Beverly Hills Cop 2009 isn’t terrible. It’s a pretty standard police corruption story that has a personal edge for Axel Foley, and Brandt and Haas make it feel like an 80s action film by keeping the action more grounded, even though the final fight does include RPGs. But there’s no fun in the movie and it feels like it needs another draft to make the film an Axel Foley adventure and not a generic cop getting revenge picture.

C+

I’ll pass. You?

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