I wish I'd have enjoyed it like you did.
SPOLIER ALERT (although if you don't see these things coming miles away thats on you)
I hated it based on the sheer super-cliched nature of it.
- Rogue cop does a stupid amount of damage to catch bad guy
- Rogue cop has an estranged daughter he needs to help
- Their relationship was strained because he worked too much
- Best friend gets captured and tied to a chair for days on end for no particular reason
- Swarmy bad cop is the evil genius behind it all
- Rogue cop loses his badge and must solve crime, help daughter, save friend and regain trust of boss
- Queue chase scene where automatic weapons are always fired 3 foot too low so they hit the front of a bulldozer and not the cabin
- Queue Nuetron Dance
- Insert Eddie Murphy fast talking his way past elite Beverly Hills rubes
- Roll Credits
It was campy, but not campy on purpose like the Fall Guy. If they wanted to reinvent Axel Foley and kept the wit and charm I'd have welcomed it. But they just crammed as many 80's movies cliches as possible into 90 minutes.
I don't know why I took the time to write all that except maybe that I really, really wanted to like it and didn't.