Lethal Weapon starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover
Director: Richard Donner


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Mel Gibson set aside his art-house credentials to star as a crazy cop paired with a stable one (Danny Glover) in this full-blown 1987 Richard Donner action picture. The most violent film in the series (which includes three sequels), it is also the edgiest and most interesting. After Gibson's character jumps off a building handcuffed to a man, and Gary Busey (as a cold, efficient enforcer) lets his hand get burned without flinching, there is a sense that anything can happen, and it usually does. Donner's strangely messy visual and audio style doesn't make a lot of aesthetic sense, but it stuck with all four movies.
Synopsis
Two wildly different cops become ill-suited partners after they're assigned to close down a Los Angeles drug ring. Roger Murtaugh is 50, a family man, and counting the days to his retirement -- and doing everything he can to make sure he stays alive till then. Martin Riggs is a Vietnam vet, grieving over his wife's death, and quite willing -- even eager -- to take nearly suicidal risks in the pursuit of criminals. Now they're a team, chasing the bad guys together. But can such a mismatched pairing ever work?

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Two tough cops, one who carries a lethal weapon and the other who is one, are teamed as partners in a highly unusual case involving a massive international ring which has its roots in Vietnam - a place they are both all too familiar with. Academy Award Nominations: Best Sound.

 

 

 

 

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