And director Brest makes sure to show off Murphy’s reaction shots. And the montage is excellent.īut it’s nothing compared to the first action sequence, which has a cigarette smuggler wreaking havoc in a stolen truck on the streets of Detroit, all the cops in pursuit, Murphy swinging around the back of the trailer, The Pointer Sisters’ “Neutron Dance” blaring, every shot cut perfectly to the music. The thing about really tightly chosen soundtracks is when a song doesn’t fit the characters, and Glenn Frey is definitely not what Eddie Murphy’s Detroit super-cop puts on the stereo hi-fi. It’s beautifully cut-even at its most tediously cop action movie procedural, the editing is always glorious (though there’s lots of technical magnificence in Cop-and is well-done enough you even forgive the film for Glenn Frey’s The Heat is On. Kids playing, people talking, walking, Black and white. Beverly Hills Cop opens with a montage of Detroit street scenes.
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