Beverly Hills Cop: Critic Reviews

Mr. Murphy knows exactly what he's doing, and he wins at every turn.

Eddie Murphy looks like the latest victim of the Star Magic Syndrome, in which it is assumed that a movie will be a hit simply because it stars an enormously talented person.

It's one of the few star comedies of the early 80s to allot some humor and personality to the minor characters.

Expectations that Eddie Murphy's street brand of rebelliousness would devastate staid and glittery Beverly Hills are not entirely met in a film that grows increasingly dramatic.

Murphy exudes the kind of cheeky, cocky charm that has been missing from the screen since Cagney was a pup, snarling his way out of the ghetto.

Classic '80s Murphy vehicle; fun but foulmouthed.

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Brash, crude and very funny.

Murphy at his absolute best.

The connecting stuff is just bagatelle.

Murphy exudes a natural sense of entitlement and superiority that elevates him above the Beverly Hills fops even in his grimy sweatshirt ...

One of the great popular entertainments of our time, a film that still has a place on the top 40 list of American box-office champs, and continues to look slick and full of energy almost twenty years after opening.