Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)

Eddie Murphy returns to sunny California after Captain Ronnie Cox is shot by the perpetrators of the Alphabet Crimes, a series of heists whose committers have alluded Murphy’s friends from the previous film, detectives John Ashton and Judge Reinhold. An attempt at reprising the success of the previous film, it tries to follow the same formula with bigger shoot-outs and bigger stars (Brigitte Nielsen and Dean Stockwell as bad guys), but lacks the surprising charm of the earlier release. It doesn’t help that the plot begins on the idea that a well-funded crime syndicate would follow a pattern as if they were a gang of serial killers.     

Oscar Nomination: Best Music, Original Song