Lethal Weapon 2

A truly great sequel that expands upon the friendship that was born in the first picture.

Intrepid cop partners Riggs & Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats who are using their diplomatic immunities to engage in criminal activities.

With the success of Lethal Weapon in 1987 it made common sense to follow it with a sequel. All the same elements were in place, cast, director and writers were all back for another slice of buddy buddy action bonanza. The only change of course is the villains, here represented by Joss Ackland & Derrick O'Connor's weasel South African bastardos. Joe Pesci enters the fray as the comical Leo Getz, a Federal Witness that the cop duo have to "babysit" till trial.

Right from the off the tone...

Fun sequel with plenty of action and the teamwork between Gibson and Glover was great. Joe Pesci was fine but kind of got a bit annoying. Still highly entertaining all these years later.

"Lethal Weapon 2" has a generous selection of set piece action sequences which usually results in the wholesale destruction of property and all in the name of entertainment. These sequences have been exceptionally well executed and they certainly go towards further enlivening what is an already highly entertaining although not particularly memorable motion picture experience. A lot of the carefully constructed scripting used to establish exactly what is going on is all too eagerly disregarded in favour of the much lazier and undoubtedly the more crowd pleasing option of simply blowing things up or killing a lot of people just for the sake of it. Of course it would be nice if this wasn't always the more commonplace approach in a genre film such as this one.

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...