FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Steineded How sad is this?

Verity Robins Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

shirleyfuller Lethal Weapon is a fun, exciting movie that deserves its standing in the pantheon of great action films. Contrary to popular believe this film didn't make Mel Gibson a star- He already was one after Mad Max but it did make him a household name in the US. He and Danny Glover are amazing as the mismatched buddy cop duo and one can say Lethal Weapon restarted the sub genre after 48 hours had done so a few years ago. Featuring great sequences, dialogues worth remembering and great pace Lethal Weapon is a must watch.

michaelsmith-78117 Lethal Weapon is a fun, exciting movie that deserves its standing in the pantheon of great action films. Contrary to popular believe this film didn't make Mel Gibson a star- He already was one after Mad Max but it did make him a household name in the US. He and Danny Glover are amazing as the mismatched buddy cop duo and one can say Lethal Weapon restarted the sub genre after 48 hours had done so a few years ago. Featuring great sequences, dialogues worth remembering and great pace Lethal Weapon is a must watch.

classicsoncall Every once in a while I don't mind kicking back, suspending disbelief, and enjoying a mindless action film like "Lethal Weapon". You have to realize of course, that no human being can withstand the kind of punishment a guy like Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) endures and then get up the next day feeling good as new. For the sake of these action flicks you just have to go with it, and as long as the story is OK, you'll be fine.I liked the camaraderie that developed between the suicidal Riggs and his newly assigned partner Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover). It evolved over the course of the story with each man earning the respect and gratitude of the other after several life defying situations. If you're paying attention though, a few questions will pop up. Like when Riggs tells Roger that the guy who shot at him on the street was the same guy who tried to kill him from the helicopter. Considering the distance involved, there's no way Riggs could have seen Joshua (Gary Busey) well enough to be able to identify him on the chopper.Then there's the scene in the desert when Riggs takes up a position to watch Roger's back as he makes contact with The General's (Mitchell Ryan) men. Except for some scrub ground cover, what would have prevented Riggs from seeing The General sneak up on him? If you think about it too much, some of the movie's tension just falls away in the clear light of day.I'll say this for Mel Gibson though, that scene when he was contemplating suicide showed a remarkable range in the man's talent as an actor. Glover's character wasn't called on to get that emotional, but he managed to deliver his role with some finesse as well. As a team, they're an effective pair once all the trouble goes down, with an attitude well reflected by that tattoo on Riggs' arm that says 'Never Quit'.

bkoganbing Lethal Weapon actually starts out as a serious film where Mel Gibson is an officer so despondent over the loss of his wife that he engages in incredibly reckless behavior. When that doesn't get him a line of duty death for a bit you see him contemplating suicide. No one will work with him and Danny Glover newly assigned to him is having second, third, and fourth thoughts. But they gradually warm up to each other as Glover and his family kind of provide a new stability for him. Also that shared Vietnam experience.That Vietnam thing comes in handy on the case these two have now. A former Army General who had a kind of stealth command of assassins Mitchell Ryan has gone heavy into the drug business via the contacts he made in Vietnam. His top assassin Gary Busey is his number two. These two think that Gibson and Glover got certain information about a big shipment coming in that their partner here told them before he was killed. That sets up all the action which is a cross between the Dirty Harry and the Indiana Jones features. The first Lethal Weapon got an Oscar nomination for Sound. Not sure if the three succeeding films got that kind of recognition. But they made money.