Lethal Weapon 3

The public get what they want.

In this third instalment of the popular Lethal Weapon series, Murtaugh is counting down the days till he finally hangs up his badge, but he and Riggs run into an ex-cop who is dealing in special cop-killing bullets.

In total there were four Lethal Weapon films, regardless of quality (they declined in quality with each release) each film made gargantuan amounts of money. Who could blame those involved for milking it for all it was worth if the paying public demanded it eh? Made for $35 million, part 3 went on to make Worldwide $321 million, thus ensuring that a part 4 was inevitable. But is Lethal Weapon 3 actually any good? Was the loyal paying public rewarded for their time?.

Well yes, chances are th...

More fun and dynamic police action with Mel Gibson and Danny Glover

Riggs & Murtaugh (Gibson and Glover) team-up with a kick-axx internal affairs officer (Rene Russo) to take down an ex-cop (Stuart Wilson) whos smuggling confiscated guns to L.A. gangs. Joe Pesci is also on hand.

"Lethal Weapon 3" (1992) is more-of-the-same in the successful series helmed by Richard Donner. Like the first two, its an over-the-top cop thriller with amusing camaraderie and rapid-fire banter. You have to roll with the outrageousness in order to enjoy it, just as you do with similar cop thrillers, like "The Gauntlet" (1977), although that ones superior, as are the Dirty Harry flicks IMHO.

Of the first three, I marginally prefer the second one (198...

With barely more than a week to go until Murtaugh (Danny Glover) retires, he and his now uniformed (and pony-tailed) partner Riggs (Mel Gibson) thwart an armoured car robbery and arrest the culprit. Before he can be rigorously interrogated, though, his brains get splattered against the walls of the interview room and our intrepid duo are charged by Murphy (Steve Kazan) to work with the IAD detective Lorna (Rene Russo) and track down the perpetrator. It takes them all of five minutes to work out that they have to track down rogue Lt. Travis (Stuart Wilson) who is involved in a nefarious gun-running enterprise. Finding him might have got a little easier when realtor Getz (Joe Pesci) reckons he has seem him somewhere so that starts them on a t...