Mel Gibson set aside his art-house credentials to star as a crazy cop paired with a stable one (Danny Glover) in this full-blown 1987 Richard Donner action picture. The most violent film in the series (which includes three sequels), Lethal Weapon is also the edgiest and most interesting. After Gibson's character jumps off a building handcuffed to a man, and Gary Busey (as a cold, efficient enforcer) lets his hand get burned without flinching, there is a sense that anything can happen, and it usually does. Donner's strangely messy visual and audio style doesn't make... a lot of aesthetic sense, but it stuck with all four movies. --Tom Keogh [show more]
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Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) is a family man cop who is about to turn fifty. Cautious by nature, he is less than happy to be paired with Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) when he is assigned to investigate Californian drug baron 'The General' (Mitchell Ryan). Following the death of his wife, Riggs has become a manic loner who no longer cares whether he lives or dies; an approach which causes more than a few problems as he and Murtaugh attempt to bring the General to justice.
Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) is no ordinary cop He&39;s a Mad Max gone maniacal a man whose killing expertise and suicidal recklessness make him a Lethal Weapon to anyone he works against or with Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) is an easygoing homicide detective with a loving family a big house and a pension he doesn&39;t want to lose Imagine Murtaugh&39;s shock when he learns his partner is a guy with nothing left to lose; wild-eyed burnt-out Martin Riggs Lethal Weapon is the thrill-packed story of two Vietnam-vets-turned-cops who have just one other thing in common; both hate to work with partners But their partnership becomes the key to survival when a routine murder investigation leads to all-out take-no-prisoners martial-arts-and-machine-guns war with an international heroin ring Director Richard Donner moves that war at two speeds fast and faster Hot LA days and nights explode in one show-topping scene after an other culminating in a no-holds-barred battle between Riggs and his Angel-of-Death nemesis (Gary Busey) - an electrifying sequence incorporating three martial-art-styles and requiring four full nights to film Fierce fast and frequently funny Lethal Weapon fires off round after round of can&39;t miss entertainment
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