Yeah, this is just not going to feel like Beverly Hills Cop. Nothing to do with Eddie, the plot, script, directing etc. Just too much time has passed. Rarely if ever do sequels with over even a period of 5 to 10 years feel like it's actually the same franchise and good enough to warrant it. For me, aside from Avatar obviously, only Dumb & Dumber Too and both Bad Boys sequels comes to mind. 3 might actually be my favorite and it still feels like it was part of the same universe with all key actors there for every single movie, but it helped that between the first and the second movie there was already a significant time jump. Now that the captain is dead, not sure 4 will feel similar. For Eddie and this movie, it doesn't help that Coming to America didn't need a sequel and was a huge disappointment, just objectively nothing like the first and stripped of any originality with a lot of the characters and tone. Even the Barbershop scenes couldn't save it. I will still go see it, but ever since they announced a potential 4th movie - probably started a decade ago - it got the same reaction from me as with any attempt to revive a franchise for a quick buck: Why, unnecessary and please don't.
The only thing from Murphy's back catalog that might translate into a streamer series is a sequel or reworking of The Golden Child.
Yeah, outside of the first truck scene there weren't a lot of memorable action scenes (like any). But bigger explosions and all that are the way of sequels these days and I'll take it. What gives me hope is that the chase scenes, wrecks, etc. in this look to all be live action. And nothing was taken to Good Day to Die Hard level ridiculousness.
I don’t know why I went into this with expectations of it being good. It’s not the worst movie of all time, heck it’s not even on par with Beverly Hills cop 3. The original characters from the movies are not bad. The new characters are cringe. The action is ok, the story sucks. Joseph Gordon levitt really sucks.
