Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
Directed by Tony Scott
Axel Foley returns to the land of sunshine and palm trees to investigate the near-fatal shooting of police Captain Andrew Bogomil. With the help of Sgt. Taggart and Det. Rosewood, they soon uncover that the shooting is associated with a series of "alphabet" robberies masterminded by a heartless weapons kingpin—and the chase is on.
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The picture’s pumped to the max – coming from the same “bigger is better” Beverly Hills Cop II school of anti-reality Tony Scott perfected for Jerry Bruckheimer.
It’s more in line with Beverly Hills Cop II or Die Hard II.
Utter nonsense, quite frankly, as True Romance is every bit a Tarantino (and an uncredited Roger Avary) movie, from the quirky movie nerd-driven dialogue down to the sudden bouts of excessive violence (with a few race-related slurs thrown in for good measure), but this is Tarantino filtered through the lens of Tony Scott, the man who brought us the sun-drenched vistas and sexy sax music of Beverly Hills Cop II and Top Gun as well as the stylish action of Man on Fire and The Last Boy Scout, and Scott is perhaps this movie’s secret weapon.
Some of the casting and almost all of the music is completely generic Hollywood, while Tony Scott – director of Beverly Hills Cop II and Days of Thunder – gets mixed results filming a down and dirty exploitation flick like it was a cologne commercial.
At the helm instead is Tony Scott, the man who foisted Top Gun and Beverly Hills Cop II on us.
Best known as the man behind action flicks like Top Gun and Beverly Hills Cop II, on the surface, the glossy and superficial Scott appeared to be the wrong man for the job.
It is shot more like a Scott flick than a QT one, but only somewhat — it lacks both the slick flashiness we associate with Scott’s early work (Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II) and the grungy hyper-editing of his later stuff (Man on Fire, Domino).
His credits include Revenge, Beverly Hills Cop II, Top Gun and Days of Thunder.