Advantages: great action and entertainment Disadvantages: none
Director: Richard Donner
Producers: Richard Donner and Joel Silver
Writer: Shane Black.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Mitchell Ryan, Tom Atkins, Darlene Love and Grand L. Bush.
Released in March 1987 this 1 hour and 50 minute movie introduces the world to the irrational, and rather insane, Martin Riggs and his unlucky partner Robert Murtaugh..
**BRIEF PLOT**
When Detective Sergeant Roger Murtaugh, (played by Danny Glover), from the L.A. police department, investigates an apparent suicide he realises that the victim is Amanda Hunsaker, the daughter of his old Vietnam buddy, Michael.
Unfortunately for Murtaugh, on his 50th birthday, he is introduced to his new 'partner', Detective Sergeant Martin Riggs, (played by Mel Gibson), a very emotionally disturbed officer with suicidal tendencies ever since ...
Advantages: Buddy movie; humour; Gary Busey; stunts Disadvantages: The Sequels that followed
Some movies just don't seem to age at all, and despite Gibson's trademark 80's mullet Lethal Weapon is one of them. This is not your typical Schwarzenegger-esque blow-shit-up-just-for-the-sake-of-it action movie, followed by a host of witty one liners (which I still love by the way); this is actually a respectably paced movie about two mismatched cops, whose irreconcilable personalities are interestingly developed throughout. The stunts aren't half bad either (definitely no CGI here).
Danny Glover is the safe, no nonsense cop, Roger Murtaugh, on the verge of retirement, who has a nice family and nice home to be proud of. On the contrary, Mel Gibson stars as Martin Riggs, a cop on the edge after the recent death of his wife, who no one wants to work with- he is the "lethal weapon", trained in martial arts and ais n expert in ...
Advantages: more great action/comedy from the dangerous duo Disadvantages: none
Director: Richard Donner
Producers: Richard Donner and Joel Silver
Writers: Shane Black, Warren Murphy and Jeffrey Boam.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Derrick O'Conner, Patsy Kensit and Joss Ackland.
Released in the summer of 1989 this 1 hour and 54 minute sequel to the popular Lethal Weapon movie hoped to be as good as its predecessor.
**BRIEF PLOT**
When officer Martin Riggs, (played by Mel Gibson), and officer Roger Murtaugh, (played by Danny Glover) come across a car boot full of Kruger ands (African gold coins) they soon realise that there is more to the bounty than first thought?
Meanwhile, the pair are assigned to protect Leo Getz, (played by Joe Pesci) who is a witness for the prosecution, as he was working as an accountant for a south African smuggling gang.
The L.A. officers are ...
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