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Lethal Weapon 2

EMAIL PRINTWarner Bros. Pictures

9.5 User Score:

Generally favorable reviews

Based on 13 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Action | Comedy | Crime

Written by: Shane Black (characters & story)
Warren Murphy (story)
Jeffrey Boam

Directed by: Richard Donner

Release Date:
Theatrical: July 7, 1989
DVD: July 30, 1997

Running Time: 114 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Language(s): Afrikaans / English

Summary

RATING: Rated R for violence and language

Starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Patsy Kensit, and Joss Ackland

Riggs wows the pretties of a hotel spa before getting to Getz. Murtaugh receives bad bodywork news from an auto repairman after his beleaguered station wagon sees some Riggs-piloted street action. Plus, feisty Leo shares a newly included scene in which he recalls a suspect's address by complex spins of numbers that, well, no one can tell it like Leo. And no one would follow his lead but Riggs and Murtaugh. It's police procedure, Lethal style. (Warner Bros.)

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What The Critics Said

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Washington Post Roger Piantadosi

But no, Lethal Weapon 2 is no artless, autopiloted waste of precious movie-theater air conditioning. It's fun stuff -- crackling, playfully escapist summer fare that doesn't make you feel taken advantage of later.

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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Lethal Weapon 2 is that rarity - a sequel with most of the same qualities as the original. I walked into the movie with a certain dread. But this is a film with the same off-center invention and wild energy as the original.

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The New York Times Caryn James

Before it skids out of control in the final sequence, the film is so careful to preserve its successful comic-action formula that it follows the most basic law of sequels. If you liked ''Lethal Weapon,'' you'll like Lethal Weapon 2; it's almost as simple as that.

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Variety Staff (Not Credited)

Loaded with the usual elements, Lethal Weapon 2 benefits from a consistency of tone that was lacking in the first film. This time, screenwriter Jeffrey Boam and director Richard Donner have wisely trained their sights on humor and the considerable charm of Mel Gibson and Danny Glover's onscreen rapport.

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Washington Post Rita Kempley

"Lethal Weapon," that BMW of buddy movies, spawns Lethal Weapon 2, a blacktop-blistering bad-guy-getter that's nearly twice as much fun.

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Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

The movie overall may be routine, but Donner gives it some spark and polish.

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Empire Anne Thompson

Unlike most sequels Lethal Weapon 2 is neither predictable nor conventional. It's just pumped full of juice.

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TV Guide Staff (Not Credited)

Returning director Richard Donner seems to have smoothed over the few stylistic rough edges remaining from the earlier film to deliver here two hours of pure, breathless, high-impact entertainment.

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Boston Globe Jay Carr

Sitting through Lethal Weapon 2 is like dating a jackhammer. It's a slick, cynical, high-speed assembly line of car chases, jokes, sex, explosions and blood. [41 Jul 1989, p.41]

Los Angeles Times Michael Wilmington

Lethal Weapon 2 has the brain-rattling pace of a terminal speed freak going the wrong way down an expressway. [7 Jul 1989, p.1]

USA Today Mike Clark

Lethal Weapon 2 is bang-bang and brain-dead in roughly equal measure. If there's an advantage this time out, it's that the film seems to play the action (and its lead character's psychoses) more for laughs. [7 Jul 1989, p.1D]

Chicago Tribune Gene Siskel

Yet another disappointing summer sequel, Lethal Weapon 2, with Danny Glover and Mel Gibson reprising their cop-buddy roles in pursuit of South African drug lords. [7 Jul 1989, p.A]

Time Richard Corliss

That first movie raised the craft of torture to a low art. Expect no less in LW2, directed by Richard Donner and written by Jeffrey Boam. This installment features a surfboard decapitation, death by carpenter's nail gun, a bomb wired to a very sensitive seat ( and reduction of the Afrikaaner diaspora by about one-half. (24July 1989, p.53)

What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 9.5 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes

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