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None of the Beverly Hills Cop sequels have matched the original, and the same is true of this latest Netflix effort, the first for 30 years. And yet it's genuine fun, all the same and an ideal platform for Murphy, an evergreen 63, to show that as cocksure Axel Foley he still commands the screen with that matchless ability to play for laughs and thrills at the same time. On the whole, first-time director Mark Molloy astutely abides by Murphy's law: give rascally Axel enough funny lines (co-writer Will Beall is himself a former Los Angeles detective) and daft escapades (which here involve a stolen helicopter, golf cart and 10-ton truck) and he will keep the show on the road.