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'''''Beverly Hills Cop III''''' is a 1994 American [[Action film|action]]-[[comedy film]] starring [[Eddie Murphy]] and directed by [[John Landis]], who had previously worked with Murphy on ''[[Trading Places]]'' and ''[[Coming to America]]''. It is the third film in the ''[[Beverly Hills Cop (film series)|Beverly Hills Cop]]'' trilogy.

Murphy again plays Detroit cop [[Axel Foley]], who once again returns to [[Beverly Hills, California]], to stop a gang of counterfeiters who are responsible for the death of his boss. Foley teams up with his friend, Beverly Hills detective [[Billy Rosewood]] ([[Judge Reinhold]]), and his investigation leads him to an amusement park known as [[California's Great America|Wonder World]]. The film features a number of cameo appearances by well-known film personalities, including [[Robert B. Sherman]], [[Arthur Hiller]], [[John Singleton]], [[Joe Dante]], special effects legend [[Ray Harryhausen]], and [[George Lucas]] as a ride patron.

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==Plot==

One night in Detroit, Axel Foley plans to arrest a gang of car thieves who run a local chop shop. Unbeknownst to his boss, Inspector G. Douglas Todd, Axel has canceled the [[SWAT|SWAT team]], intending to raid the shop using only his team. Meanwhile, a group of men arrive at the chop shop to pick up a [[cube van]] that the car thieves had hijacked. The leader of the group confirms that the vehicle still contains its cargo, which consists of crates labelled as property of the U.S. government, then has his men execute the car thieves.

As the murderers are about to leave, Axel, unaware of what has happened inside, proceeds with his plan to enter the shop and quickly finds his team outgunned. Todd, arriving moments later, is fatally shot by the group's leader. As the perpetrators escapes in the cube van, an angry Foley gives chase in one of the partially disassembled cars from the shop, but is prevented from continuing the chase by [[Secret Service]] Agent Steve Fulbright. Fulbright informs Foley that the killer must remain on the loose because the federal government is pursuing a larger scheme in which he is involved.

After Todd's funeral, Axel learns that several clues left behind by the killers point to Wonder World, a theme park in [[Beverly Hills, California]] owned by "Uncle" Dave Thorton. Axel arrives in Beverly Hills and reunites with his friend Billy Rosewood, who has been promoted to "Deputy Director of Operations for Joint Systems Interdepartmental Operational Command" (DDO-JSIOC), and meets Billy's new partner, Jon Flint. It is revealed that John Taggart is now retired and is living in [[Phoenix' Arizona]]. Axel asks Flint to call his friend Ellis DeWald, the head of Wonder World's park security, to let him know that he's coming to the park for his investigation.

Axel meets and befriends Janice Perkins ([[Theresa Randle]]) whilst touring the park's behind-the-scenes facilities. Later, he is spotted by security, shot at and attacked hand-to-hand. Foley retreats to the surface where he cuts in line to enter the Spider [[Ferris wheel]] ride. The guards accidentally jam the ride, placing two little kids' lives in danger. Axel rescues them and is subsequently taken to park manager Orrin Sanderson. When DeWald is called in to contest the claim that Axel was attacked by the security men without prior challenge, Axel immediately recognizes DeWald as Todd's killer, but Rosewood and Flint refuse to believe that claim because DeWald is keeping an impeccable public reputation.

However, Axel is later visited by Uncle Dave and Janice, who inform him that the Wonder World park's designer and Dave's close friend, Roger Fry, has mysteriously disappeared while inspecting the grounds two weeks ago, leaving only a letter with a cryptic message. He tries to heckle DeWald into revealing his criminal involvements, despite continued admonishments by Agent Fulbright, but DeWald proves too smooth to be caught in a mistake. When Axel later digs deeper into a closed-off section of the park, he finds out that DeWald and Sanderson run a [[counterfeit]]ing ring that uses Wonder World as a front, and DeWald was at the chop shop in Detroit to get his hands on blank printing paper used for American currency. Axel later meets with Uncle Dave to ask him about further details to find a piece of viable evidence, and thereby discovers that Fry's warning letter is actually written on a sheet of the stolen mint paper. Before he can make use of that evidence, however, Uncle Dave is shot by DeWald, and Axel is framed for his shooting.