Lethal Weapon 2

1989

1h 54m

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Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.

Directors

Richard Donner

Writers

Jeffrey Boam(screenplay by)

Shane Black(story by)

Warren Murphy(story by)

Stars

Mel Gibson

Danny Glover

Joe Pesci

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Martin Riggs

Roger Murtaugh

Leo Getz

Arjen Rudd

Pieter Vorstedt

Rika Van Den Haas

Trish Murtaugh

Rianne Murtaugh

Hans

Captain Murphy

Meagan Shapiro

Tim Cavanaugh

Tom Wyler

Eddie Estaban

Joseph Ragucci

Jerry Collins

Marcelli

Nick Murtaugh

Directors

Richard Donner

Writers

Jeffrey Boam(screenplay by)

Shane Black(story by)

Warren Murphy(story by)

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Flushed with their success from 1987, our intrepid pair of investigators now find themselves embroiled in a cunning smuggling operation being run, they think, out of the diplomatically protected South African consulate. They think this because a previous raid revealed an hoard of Krugerrand and then "Murtaugh" (Danny Glover) and his family were quite unceremoniously warned to leave well alone. It's drugs that are the focus of their investigation but how is that getting converted into millions and millions of dollars and how is it to be got out of the USA? "Capt. Murphy" (Steve Kaplan) assigns him and his sparky cohort "Riggs" (Mel Gibson) to protect "Getz" (Joe Pesci) who might just have some clues, but he also has some great big targets on his back and it soon becomes quite a perilous detail. Meantime, the abominably smug "Rudd" (Joss Ackland) directs affairs from the safety of his mission so "Riggs", ever the unorthodox, decides the best way to bypass immunity is to seduce his secretary "Rika" (Patsy Kensit). With the body count mounting and the bullets flying, they have to get a move on before their quarry flees for good. I didn't think this was a patch on the first outing for these two. Despite a quietly menacing effort from Ackland, the rest of this is all really predictable and flat. Pesci is about as versatile as a chocolate fireguard and his constant stream of banal dialogue just sucked what little joy there was here for me out of the window. There simply isn't enough Glover and Gibson to keep it entertaining, and even though there are plenty of light-hearted action scenes it's all just gone a bit too old style "Starsky and Hutch". The writing has lost much of it's sharpness and originality and the cheeky, likeable, elements of "Riggs" character have been replaced by something more aggressive and less enjoyable. It's watchable, but already the franchise is beginning to look tired and repetitive.

Geronimo196724 Jan, 2025