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Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) More at IMDbPro »

• To receive a 15 certificate the UK cinema version was cut by the BBFC with edits to a repeated shooting and the removal of the 'revenge' scene where Riggs breaks a man's neck and slams another's head into a car door. Although later video and DVD releases were raised to an 18 the same cuts were made (totalling 31 secs). The cuts were fully waived in 2010 and the certificate downgraded to a 15.
  
  
• The newly released Director's Cut has over 3 minutes of extra footage - Riggs gets attention from some women at a hotel spa; the exploding toilet sequence is lengthened and Murtaugh sees it hit his car; Murtaugh gets information about bodywork on his car from a auto repairman; Leo recalls a suspects address in a very unusual, humorous way.
  
  
• UK version is missing two scenes: the killing of the two men who threw Riggs into the harbour is completely missing, and the scene where Riggs empties a gun into a bad guy's chest has been shortened. When the film was recently shown on network TV in the UK, Channel 5 removed some of the language, violence and nudity, but left these two scenes cut by the BBFC intact.
  
  
• The M15+ rated version for Australian television, though the same rating as the video release, made some inconsistent edits to some scenes. As Riggs fights the two men on the pier, the camera pans away as he breaks one man's neck, but clearly shows the other having his head slammed by the door repeatedly. As Murtaugh fights the men in his home, the one shot in the head collapses immediately and the other is only shot once, while the camera focuses on Murtaugh's face, though the body has several wounds when next seen. Riggs also does not empty a full clip into an enemy during the final shootout.
  
  

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