Um Tira da Pesada 4: Axel Foley

Axel is back!!! It was a pleasing film with the gang back again. The story was not complicated but fits the Beverly Hills Cop movies. The intro got you right back all those years ago. And how i have missed the humor of Eddie Murphy on the big screen. The film had the humor and action we came to love from the first films. Yes, it can never beat the original films but they were simply that good and the gang was ofcourse a lot younger. Taggert surprised me with a energetic performance for his respectable age! I was completey back in the Foley universe and enjoyed it! Thank you Eddie, good to see you again!

I'm a sucker for a good nostalgia movie. Stallone did it with Rocky and Rambo, Ford with Indy, Han Solo and Deckard, Cruise with Maverick... now it's Eddie Murphy's turn with Axel F!

I thought the third movie had definitely killed off any hope of another but this definitely recaptures some of the magic of the original movie without going over the top to get a laugh, which is what I think was the problem with number three.

A great mix of action and comedy without going too far for the laughs. Great to see Taggart and Rosewood back together, with some great additional characters. Sime interesting cameo appearances too.

This was a surreal experience watching a sequel to a 40 year old movie (less is you count the previous sequels). I was amazed at how m any of the original cast they were able to round up. After forty years I would have suspected many would have retired or passed away.

Eddie Murphy looks like he aged the least even though he's in his 60s now. The film itself is almost a tribute to the previous installments being very similar. You don't see films quite like this unless it is in the b-movie genre. Racing down a city street with abandon, destroying cars and property, no regard to by-standers. With guns fights galore and only the bad guys can miss. And no emotional repercussions for the good guys killing bad guys with abandon. If you want to relive an 1980's action film, this encapsulates it well.

Having seen the original in the movie theater this was like a time machine. I think the only thing that was really off putting was Eddie Murphy's character continual insinuation that his daughter had a sexual relationship with another character. This might have been funny back in the 80s but just doesn't work in this day and age.

Otherwise, welcome to the time machine.

It was a fun ride that had a lot of the original elements. Nothing new in terms of the plot but it was entertaining. It was nice to see most of the original cast show up throughout the film. Everyone is a lot older so don't expect a lot of physical action and fighting scenes, just a lot of bullets flying.

I said everyone is much older but the main start, Murphy, seriously doesn't look much older than he did in Beverly Hills Cop III. There's a scene with Eddie Murphy and Kevin Bacon in a room together. Bacon looks like the 65 year old OG he is but Murphy looks nowhere near his age of 63. 63! Let that sink in when you see him on screen. Unbelievable.

I thought this was nicely done. It seemed to me that they weren't trying to outdo, or even match the original movie, but were just giving it an affectionate nod. And it achieved just that. It's nowhere near as funny as the first one but anyone who knows that movie well will probably enjoy the many tributes to some of its best moments. It was great to see so many of the original cast and also a lot of the locations. Using the original music was also a nice touch and it helped to recreate the mood of the original movie. If you don't expect too much it's quite a fun watch. I bet they had a ball making it!