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18/05/1987 Action, Comedy, Crime 1h 43m
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Axel Foley is back. Back where he doesn't belong.

Overview

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.

  1. Tony Scott

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Eddie Murphy

    Axel Foley

  2. Judge Reinhold

    Billy Rosewood

  3. John Ashton

    John Taggart

  4. Jürgen Prochnow

    Maxwell Dent

  5. Ronny Cox

    Andrew Bogomil

  6. Brigitte Nielsen

    Karla Fry

  7. Allen Garfield

    Harold Lutz

  8. Dean Stockwell

    Chip Cain

  9. Paul Reiser

    Jeffrey Friedman

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-02-26
Well I suppose a sequel to the 1984 success was inevitable, and to be fair Tony Scott has managed to re-assemble the cast from the first film and recruit Jürgen Prochnow ("Dent") to adopt the Steven Berkoff role as baddie-in-chief. The rest of this is pretty much a straight copy of the original as Eddie Murphy's "Foley" reunites with "Ashton" (John Taggart) and "Rosewood" (Judge Reinhold) to get to the bottom of an assassination attempt on their beloved "Bogomil" (Ronny Cox) after he had been suspended for failing to make inroads into the media-dominating "alphabet crimes". What now ensues is...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$28,000,000.00

Revenue
$299,965,036.00

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