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One of the many virtues ofBeverly Hills Copwas that the picture took its time.
The movie meandered gracefully.
But producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer no longer seem willing to allow that kind of personal filmmaking.
Everything S&B makes now has the same hypertense attack.
Some people like that; it improves their circulation.
I also hated the other ways the filmmakers coarsened the material.
The sexual attitudes here are brazenly, stupidly retrograde: Women are either bitches or twitches.
Murphy seems utterly at home anywhere.
Hes the star, the gravy train, and everyone in the movie treats him as a king.
Perhaps Murphys phenomenal earning power has dissolved his ability to play a role.
He is simply the gloating center of everything, feasting on the attention.
He has some great moments snapping his fingers in the faces of thick-headed criminals his hand movements dazzle.
