All the Ways ‘Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F’ Pays Homage to the 1984 Original

SPOILER WARNINGThis story mentions major spoilers for “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F,” now streaming on Netflix.

Axel Foley is back in Beverly Hills, and so is Eddie Murphy.

“Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F” director Mark Molloy set out to make a film with the same feeling and tone as the 1984 classic “Beverly Hills Cop” and its 1987 sequel, “Beverly Hills Cop 2.” He calls the latest film in the franchise, “My love letter to the first two films.”

Molloy recruited Jahmin Assa, the film’s production designer, to pay tribute to those earlier chapters in numerous ways. Assa’s goal was to create something that made “Los Angeles feel

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