text:  I really was blown by how much it did for Eddie Murphy. He was basically the first Black actor to play a cop in a big blockbuster after the Blaxploitation era, like being the only person whose name is on the movie poster. He had absolute top billing. It wasn't just unusual to have a Black man as the hero cop at that time. It was also unusual to have him as the only star and the main star of a film at that time.