Every Eddie Murphy Movie, Ranked
Updated January 2023 to add You People.
After a successful stand-up career in the 1970s and a wildly acclaimed run on Saturday Night Live in the early 1980s, Eddie Murphy launched his film career (while still on SNL) in 1982 and has been appearing on the big screen fairly steadily in the decades since, starring in over 40 titles. To date, Murphy's films have grossed over $6 billion worldwide, but only occasionally has the material on screen matched Murphy's comedic talents—and, even when it has, reviews have sometimes been less positive than you might expect. In the gallery above, we rank all of his films to date (including his newest, Coming 2 America) from worst to best by Metascore, which reflects the consensus of professional critics for each film.
Murphy reunited once again with his Trading Places/Coming to America director John Landis (but for the first time in the Beverly Hills Cop series) for this 1994 sequel to Beverly Hills Cop II. The latter movie was mediocre at best, but installment three was an outright dud. The film featured a generic Die Hard-in-a-theme-park storyline (penned by actual Die Hard screenwriter Steven E. de Souza) and contained little of the charm found in the original film.
At various points (including as recently as 2019), there were tentative plans to film a fourth installment in the series, but that project now appears to be either on hold or DOA.
“Beverly Hills Cop III is just going through the motions, without comic conviction, surprises or suspense.” —Richard Schickel, Time
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