Let's be honest.... it's not as good as Beverly Hills Cop 3 and that was a mess. But it's 2024 and by today's super low expectations for quality entertainment is seems like it's a really good movie. Like the sequel to Coming to America, it sort of forgot that you need a story to work and can't just rely on the characters, and Eddie, he just isn't as quick as he was in I and II... both with the wit and on his feet, so it sort of falters there anyway. But that is just a comparison. The fact is that, if you aren't really big Fans of I and II, and if you are and have seen nothing but new movies in the past forever, it's a pretty OK film. But it's a facade, it only comes across as good because our standards for decent film making are so pathetically low that it makes wrecks like this look amazingly well done, with a Chinatown solid script, great comedic timing, and a solid character arc. You go back in time before Hollywood fell, and it would be getting all the criticism that came with III. Leave 80s greats alone, Cobra Kai was the exception not the norm, and you can't capture 80s gold while making it FOR THE MODERN AUDIENCE. With MODERN SENSIBILITIES while removing the humor, characters, and plots that are PROBLEMATIC... because none of that inoffensive cookie cutter crap works today and that goes doubly so for yesteryear. Once upon a time the good of the Beverly Hills Cop franchise outweighed the bad. Now it's a wash. But it's a wash that comes across as good because our expectations are so seriously low.