Rating: R
Genre:
Action
Theatrical Release: 07/07/1989(USA)
Release Date: 07/30/1997
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time: 114 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Graphic Violence, Brief Nudity, Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language, Profanity, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
Lethal Weapon 2 reteams
Mel Gibson and
Danny Glover as, respectively, "loose cannon" LA detective Martin Riggs and Riggs' partner, the cautious family man Roger Murtaugh. The villain this time is a South African diplomat (
Joss Ackland) who doubles as a drug dealer. Though Riggs knows what's going on thanks to characterless character witness
Joe Pesci, he can't touch the villain because of "diplomatic immunity." After perils too numerous to mention, Riggs and Murtaugh shoot it out with the heavies on the deck of a South African cargo ship.
Lethal Weapon 2, of course, contains as one of its comic high-points a now famous suspense scene:
Mel Gibson agonizingly attempting to extricate a terrified
Danny Glover from a booby-trapped toilet seat.
Gibson,
Glover,
Donner and
Joe Pesci would be reunited three years later for
Lethal Weapon 3 and in 1998 for
Lethal Weapon 4.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
;)
