Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh pursue a former LAPD officer who uses his knowledge of police procedure and policies to steal and sell confiscated guns and ammunition to local street gangs.
With personal crises and age weighing in on them, LAPD officers Riggs and Murtaugh must contend with deadly Chinese triads that are trying to free their former leaders out of prison and onto American soil.
John McClane and a Harlem store owner are targeted by German terrorist Simon Gruber in New York City, where he plans to rob the Federal Reserve Building.
Director:
John McTiernan
Stars:
Bruce Willis,
Jeremy Irons,
Samuel L. Jackson
A taxi driver with a pension for conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of these theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.
After being exiled from the most advanced town in post apocalyptic Australia, a drifter travels with a group of abandoned children to rebel against the town's queen.
Martin Riggs is an L.A. cop with suicidal tendencies and Roger Murtaugh is the unlucky police officer with whom Riggs is assigned. Together they uncover a huge drug-smuggling operation, and as their success rate grows so does their friendship.Written by
Graeme Roy <gsr@cbmamiga.demon.co.uk>
Shane Black's first draft of Lethal Weapon (1987), which he wrote sometime in 1985, was very different, not just from his later drafts, but also from the final movie. This first draft was 141 pages long, and it was much darker, it had alternate plot parts, character scenes, action sequences, and many other differences, like an entire ending, which had a big chase scene, including a police helicopter which gets blown up by Joshua, who fires napalm missile at it causing it to crash into the Hollywood sign and start a huge fire, Murtaugh killing General McAllister while he is driving a trailer truck full of heroin and guns which then crashes and explodes over Hollywood Hills causing heroin to start snowing over the burning Hollywood sign, and Riggs killing Joshua by stabbing his fingers through Joshua's eye right into his brain.
Riggs was also a much different character in this first draft than he is in the movie, and lot more mentally unstable. For example, in the original version of the scene where he kills a sniper who is shooting at the kids, instead of using his gun, Riggs uses a rocket launcher to blow up the sniper after he shot and killed several kids. In another part of the script, he also uses Shuriken (throwing Ninja stars) to wound one of the villains, and then tortures him for information.
Black at first thought that this draft (which was his second script, his first was an unproduced action zombie horror script, titled "Shadow Company", which he wrote in 1984) sucked, so he threw it in the garbage, but later changed his mind, and re-worked it into the new drafts. For the longest time, Black was the only one who had copy of his first draft until he sold it at an auction, and eventually it was found by fans. See more »
Goofs
When Riggs and Murtaugh dive into the pool, Riggs has been and is wearing boots. When he climbs out, he's in his socks. But, he never took off his boots. See more »
Quotes
[Riggs is having doubts]
Roger Murtaugh:
Why is there a problem?
Martin Riggs:
There's no problem.
Roger Murtaugh:
We got one dead girl and one dead guy. The dead guy kills the dead girl, we kill the dead guy 'cause he wanted us to be dead guys - it's pretty easy to me.
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Crazy Credits
There is a dedication to Dar Robinson, a stuntman who died in a motorbike accident as Lethal Weapon was in Post-Production. See more »
Alternate Versions
The Director's Cut (not actually a true director's cut, but a marketing promotion by Warner Bros.) features seven minutes of additional footage. In a new trailer scene, Riggs smashes his TV with a beer bottle; later he buys a new one. Murtaugh, before partnering with Riggs, goes to practice at the firing range. Riggs, before the dope shoot out, answers a call in a school yard with a sniper. Riggs walks out into the line of fire and kills the sniper, emptying his clip into him. Riggs, after leaving Murtaugh's house, goes out to solicit a prostitute. The aftermath is not shown, but Riggs says he wants to take her home to watch The Stooges with him; for this he pays her $100. See more »
Lethal Weapon is the first in a series of films that were all good. Richard Donner made an action packed buddy picture that everyone can enjoy. Mel Gibson and Danny Glover were both good in the lead roles and the action sequences are top notch. Kudos to Gary Busey for making a great bad guy.
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Lethal Weapon is the first in a series of films that were all good. Richard Donner made an action packed buddy picture that everyone can enjoy. Mel Gibson and Danny Glover were both good in the lead roles and the action sequences are top notch. Kudos to Gary Busey for making a great bad guy.