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Lethal Weapon 2
1989 - R - 1:54
Warner Home Video
Action
Directed by Richard Donner
Starring:
Mel Gibson
Danny Glover
Joe Pesci
Joss Ackland
Derrick O'Connor
Patsy Kensit
The magic is back! Buddy-cops Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Murtaugh (Danny Glover) are off and running, trying to keep a key witness and themselves alive in Lethal Weapon 2. It's been ywo years since we last caught up with this battle-hardened pair. Murtaugh is still the family man. Riggs is still the reckless man without a family, but now he counts the odds before plunging into a seemingly impossible situation. He cracks more jokes, too. "I thought in this film I could take Riggs in a slightly different direction and maybe have some fun," Gibson says. Fun it is. And exciting, from its breathless, opening chase through the streets of L.A. to its raging gun-battle finale. In between, there's a six-story plummet from a window, a booby-trapped toilet, a Houdini-like underwater escape and more power-packing thrills, including the incredible destruction of a chic hillside stilt house. (It's a real house, right down to its 35-foot-deep foundations, demolished spectacularly as nine cameras rolled. "I hate miniatures," explains director Richard Donner, who also guided Lethal Weapon.) Joe Pesci (Raging Bull, Easy Money) co-stars as the wheedling witness guarded by the two cops. "With Mel and Danny, Joe is the third stooge," Donner says. That makes three drop-dead funny guys. And one of them is lethal.
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