Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 111m
Director: Richard Donner
Cast: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Joss Ackland, Patsy Kensit
Synopsis:
Our two accident-prone buddy police officers get involved with gold smuggling South Africans, and for Riggs it turns into a private vendetta.
Review:
Beverly Hills Cop syndrome: for the sequel the screen goes wide, the action gets slicker and less probable, the pseudo-Hawksian banter gets trotted out again, laced with ever more expletives, and the whole thing becomes an exercise in expensively staged exploitation, a jumped-up B movie (story of the decade). Only thing is, B movies had more plot and less mayhem (BBFC demanded cuts before releasing the film under the distributor's desired 15 certificate).
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 111m
Director: Richard Donner
Cast: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Joss Ackland, Patsy Kensit
Synopsis:
Our two accident-prone buddy police officers get involved with gold smuggling South Africans, and for Riggs it turns into a private vendetta.
Review:
Beverly Hills Cop syndrome: for the sequel the screen goes wide, the action gets slicker and less probable, the pseudo-Hawksian banter gets trotted out again, laced with ever more expletives, and the whole thing becomes an exercise in expensively staged exploitation, a jumped-up B movie (story of the decade). Only thing is, B movies had more plot and less mayhem (BBFC demanded cuts before releasing the film under the distributor's desired 15 certificate).
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 111m
Director: Richard Donner
Cast: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Joss Ackland, Patsy Kensit
Synopsis:
Our two accident-prone buddy police officers get involved with gold smuggling South Africans, and for Riggs it turns into a private vendetta.
Review:
Beverly Hills Cop syndrome: for the sequel the screen goes wide, the action gets slicker and less probable, the pseudo-Hawksian banter gets trotted out again, laced with ever more expletives, and the whole thing becomes an exercise in expensively staged exploitation, a jumped-up B movie (story of the decade). Only thing is, B movies had more plot and less mayhem (BBFC demanded cuts before releasing the film under the distributor's desired 15 certificate).