User Score
6.2 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 25 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 25
  2. Negative: 4 out of 25

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  1. TonyB.
    Oct 19, 2005
    1
    Please, Warner Brothers, let's not have any more of this claptrap, and if you must make #5, knock off the Joe Pesci character while the credits are rolling. He is absolutely horrible.
  2. NoelT.
    Sep 24, 2003
    1
    One lethal weapon too many. I don't even want to talk about this movie. Just the thought of it gives me a headache.
  3. PatC.
    Jan 10, 2004
    2
    Not even Pesci & Russo can save this rip-off of its own squalid but action-packed predecessors. Surely Gibson in his now stock avenging-angel role will not wring more than a couple more billion dollars out of playing such a character.
  4. Mar 3, 2012
    3
    Besides being a springboard for Jet Li's Hollywood career (for good or ill, depending on your view), this film is just a forgettable, uneventful money-grab. The cuts between Gibson and his bad-wig-wearing stunt-double are some of the most unconvincing I've ever seen in a big-budget picture. But that stands as a great analogy for the entire film... slap shod, sloppy and unconvincing malarkey.
Metascore

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 21 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 21
  2. Negative: 6 out of 21
  1. The characters remain funny and likable, and they all live on Earth.
  2. This movie is exceptionally brutal, cruel, savage and without conscience -- and that's just the comic parts. In contrast, the violent action sequences are quite entertaining.
  3. The most lethal weapon of all turns out to be the script.