Lethal Weapon (1987)
Country: US
Technical: col 110m
Director: Richard Donner
Cast: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey
Synopsis:
Near suicidal single cop teams with safe, careful family-man cop.
Review:
What was to become Gibson's most lucrative franchise since the Mad Max series features a character who is a more flippant, self-aware version of the same. The devil-may-care, irreverent attitude to his adversaries struck the right note for those tired of the fixed jaws of Stallone and Schwarzenegger (though was nothing new in itself: cf. Beverly Hills Cop), and he could be mean when it mattered. Cynical entertainment, therefore, and the Glover partnership is an astute makeweight, but the stars are appealing and Donner directs with slickness and tension.
Country: US
Technical: col 110m
Director: Richard Donner
Cast: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey
Synopsis:
Near suicidal single cop teams with safe, careful family-man cop.
Review:
What was to become Gibson's most lucrative franchise since the Mad Max series features a character who is a more flippant, self-aware version of the same. The devil-may-care, irreverent attitude to his adversaries struck the right note for those tired of the fixed jaws of Stallone and Schwarzenegger (though was nothing new in itself: cf. Beverly Hills Cop), and he could be mean when it mattered. Cynical entertainment, therefore, and the Glover partnership is an astute makeweight, but the stars are appealing and Donner directs with slickness and tension.
Country: US
Technical: col 110m
Director: Richard Donner
Cast: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey
Synopsis:
Near suicidal single cop teams with safe, careful family-man cop.
Review:
What was to become Gibson's most lucrative franchise since the Mad Max series features a character who is a more flippant, self-aware version of the same. The devil-may-care, irreverent attitude to his adversaries struck the right note for those tired of the fixed jaws of Stallone and Schwarzenegger (though was nothing new in itself: cf. Beverly Hills Cop), and he could be mean when it mattered. Cynical entertainment, therefore, and the Glover partnership is an astute makeweight, but the stars are appealing and Donner directs with slickness and tension.