Axel Foley returns to the land of sunshine and palm trees to investigate the near-fatal shooting of police Captain Andrew Bogomil. With the help of Sgt. Taggart and Det. Rosewood, they soon uncover that the shooting is associated with a series of "alphabet" robberies masterminded by a heartless weapons kingpin—and the chase is on.

Eddie Murphy
as Axel Foley

Judge Reinhold
as Billy Rosewood

John Ashton
as John Taggart

Jürgen Prochnow
as Maxwell Dent

Ronny Cox
as Andrew Bogomil

Brigitte Nielsen
as Karla Fry

Allen Garfield
as Harold Lutz

Dean Stockwell
as Chip Cain

Paul Reiser
as Jeffrey Friedman

Gilbert R. Hill
as Inspector Todd
JPV852
Entertaining enough sequel isn't as sharp as the original and some parts felt like Murphy's stand-up routine, and while the plot itself was weak, did enjoy the on-screen friendships between Murphy, Reinhold and Ashton. **3.5/5**...
CinemaSerf
Well I suppose a sequel to the 1984 success was inevitable, and to be fair Tony Scott has managed to re-assemble the cast from the first film and recruit Jürgen Prochnow ("Dent") to adopt the Steven Berkoff role as baddie-in-chief. The rest of this is pretty much a straight copy of the original as E...