In 7 words or less: Riggs and Murtaugh amp up the laughs.
What's it all About? Krugerands! A bunch of South African diplomats are doing some wild smuggling and it's up to Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh to bring them down. I think that's what it's about, unless I missed some massive underlining subtext. No, if someone asks you what Lethal Weapon 2 is about, just shout 'Krugerands' at their face!
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| "Krugerands!" |
Best bits? Oh, so many! In terms of scenes I'd say the toilet bomb fiasco at Murtaugh's house is brilliant, the helicopter shootout by Riggs' beach house is rad, and the end fight scene at the docks is wicked!
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| Roger Murtaugh enjoys an exquisite double ply toilet tissue |
In a more general sense I just immensely enjoy watching these characters on screen together. This is definitely drifting away from the darker storyline of the first, and with the introduction of Joe Pesci as the hilarious Leo Getz, it definitely has plenty of laugh out loud moments, or LOLs to those with the persuation. I think Riggs' character still has enough darkness behind the eyes to make things interesting and we never deviate off course into full on comedy territory.
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| Which one is Joe Pesci? |
Did it make you think thoughts? Mainly that it was awesome revisiting these characters. I can't think of a better buddy cop film/franchise than the Lethal Weapon films. Massive nostalgia pangs watching this.
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| Sergeant Murtaugh & Sergeant Riggs enjoying a lovely 80s lunch |
Would you watch it again? Absolutely! Classic sequel.
Rating (out of 100%): I give it a 'lethal' 84% without '2' many 'weapons' in it. That doesn't really work, I mean 'weapons' as in 'tools' as in 'idiots'. Hmm, convoluted.
