Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Rexanne It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Jithin K Mohan As good as the first one, which starts off with a chase and keeps the tight pace throughout. There's more comedy than the first and Gibson and Glover are at the top of their game yet it manages to be much darker. Shane Black's first draft was supposed to be a much darker film which could've been a great film from what I've read about it nevertheless what we got isn't so bad after all.

TheLittleSongbird Coming from somebody who really enjoyed the first 'Lethal Weapon', while not considering it quite perfect, this is quite high praise. Although there are sequels that are as good as their predecessors is nearly better ('Godfather Part II', 'Terminator 2', 'Aliens') there are many others that don't measure up and some even disgracing them.'Lethal Weapon 2', thank goodness, is not one of those films. But saying that it is almost as good as the first 'Lethal Weapon' is genuinely meant, even if it is not in the same league as the three sequels listed above that are almost as good and nearly better. 'Lethal Weapon 2' has its faults but the good things are many and very obvious to spot.It is let down a little by a script that's at times inconsistent, with the tone sometimes forced and confused and like it's trying to do too much. While the action is mostly great, the helicopter scene is somewhat implausible, more so than most of the script in the first film.Most of the performances are spot on, but two didn't really do it for me. One was Patsy Kensit, who is attractive but looks lost. The other is Joss Ackland's hammy villain who looks like he belongs in another film entirely. Not things that everybody is going to share but just personal opinion.However, like 'Lethal Weapon', the way 'Lethal Weapon 2' is shot and designed screams slick and stylish while Richard Donner once again directs with an assured hand. The score is atmospheric and groovy.Despite not finding all the script working, a lot of it does with some cracking, sometimes hilarious humour, tension and dark pathos. The story is tightly structured and plotted, with some great tension and always being fun. Loved the bathroom scene, one of the best and most unique on film.Once again, the action is slick and bursts with excitement and tension, apart from one that suffers from excessive implausibility. It is very easy to see why the chalk and cheese chemistry of the polar opposite characters of Riggs and Murtaugh became so popular, very rarely in a buddy-cop film has this kind of chemistry been so entertaining and perfectly pitched.Mel Gibson continues to excel in a performance as witty and intense has before. Danny Glover gives Murtaugh the right amount of spirit, subtlety and no-nonsense attitude. They are matched well by Joe Pesci, who is a motormouth delight, and Derrick O'Connor who gives much more of a sinister edge than Ackland (have noticed that in both films that the henchman has always been the more memorable and better played than the lead villain).In summary, very well done and just as good. 7/10 Bethany Cox

TxMike It has been a long time since I watched "Lethal Weapon 4" then "Lethal Weapon." This week, wandering through the movie shelves of my local library I came upon this one on BluRay. Anticipating good video and audio I settled in on a cold Saturday and watched it.As these Lethal Weapon movies go it is a lot of slapstick comedy superimposed on a serious theme. Here a South African diplomat in Los Angeles appears to be involved in drugs and gold, plus money laundering, but uses his diplomatic immunity to keep the cops at arm's length.Mel Gibson is Martin Riggs and his partner is Danny Glover as Roger Murtaugh. Given a $hit assignment they are to guard Joe Pesci as Leo Getz, a sly money-launderer who is in witness protection. The S. Africans want to eliminate him but Riggs and Murtaugh, as haphazard as they may be, are difficult to defeat.The boss of the bad guys is Joss Ackland as S. African diplomat Arjen Rudd. The love interest for Riggs is pretty British actress Patsy Kensit as Dutch Rika Van Den Haas who works for Rudd but is not a crook.Of course none of this is plausible but if you keep reminding yourself that it is just a movie then you will be entertained by watching how the cops eventually bring the S. African crooks to justice.

jessegehrig These are our bodies. Life is the parade of bodies before your eyes, and death is merely the place where all those bodies go. Death is a bank, no withdraws, deposit only. What is the value of the totality of all our struggles? What is the value of our individual struggles? The best of all the Lethal Weapon movies, but all that that means is a formula worked well once and has since then been less and less effective. This movie has action sequences, and comedy! This movie was made in the 1980's, 1989, but still, its an Eighties movie! Nostalgia is poison gas that is gingerbread scented, breathe deep! Yes, Lethal Weapon 2 has nudity, yes the bad guys die at the end.