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Lethal Weapon 3

Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)

May. 15,1992
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6.7
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R
| Adventure Action Comedy Thriller

Archetypal buddy cops Riggs and Murtaugh are back for another round of high-stakes action, this time setting their collective sights on bringing down a former Los Angeles police lieutenant turned black market weapons dealer. Lorna Cole joins as the beautiful yet hardnosed internal affairs sergeant who catches Riggs's eye.

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bkoganbing
1992/05/15

Our Rover Boys Mel Gibson and Danny Glover are riding high again. They both lose their sergeant's stripes again over their recklessness, but when they stop an armored car heist and take a prisoner, they uncover a really nasty smuggling and arms dealing racket masterminded by a cop who just went over the hill.According to LAPD's Internal Affairs Stuart Wilson racked up more complaints than about any cop on record, he was effective but reckless and brutal. Wilson just one day on a stakeout went over the hill, left after saying he was going for coffee. Just went over the bad guys, Job abandonment reaches a new high.In fact Wilson is one of the slimiest villains ever in the history of cinema. The seriousness of this guy is almost jarringly out of place with Legal Weapon style hijinks.Mel Gibson gets a surprise in that Rene Russo whom he initially thought was an uptight IA cop turns out to be the woman he's been waiting for since his wife died. The girl has some moves.One small performance you should note, that of Jason Rainwater of a young idealistic cop who tags after Gibson and Glover and gets killed in the fight with Wilson and his crew. A touching death scene that will bring a tear to the eye.

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AaronCapenBanner
1992/05/16

Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, and Joe Pesci return for this overly comedic, and routine sequel, which finds them going after a corrupt former cop, now illegal arms dealer, whose guns have gotten on the streets in Muratugh's own neighborhood, hitting him personally, while Riggs meets his female counterpart in the form of policewoman Lorna(played by Rene Russo) who is just as tough as he is, and with prodding, just as reckless.Overlong and too preachy, sequel feels watered down with a misdirected "family" feel to the story, rather than the hard edged action of before, though that won't stop Lorna and Riggs from threatening a suspect with being crushed by a car! Not a "cat"astrophe, but a disappointment.

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david-sarkies
1992/05/17

Lethal Weapon 3 is a fairly average movie. I have seen it a few times and it might have been funny the first time, but it came out very average the next few times. I vaguely remember promising to lend it to my sister, well she can keep it for all I care because it is not one of those movies that I really desire to have in my collection.The story is simple. An ex-cop, Jack Travis, is stealing weapons and ammunition from police store houses and selling them. Myrtal (Danny Glover) kills a friend of his son when while being shot at, and armour piercing ammo is on the streets. There is little in the way of holding the story together and it seems that it is just endless action without a strong story. Pursuing Jack Travis does take a major part of the movie, but that major part does not make a smooth plot. Rather it seems to me more of an excuse to have numerous action scenes in differing styles.One of the more subtle ideas in the movie is the re-emergence of the macho man over the strong woman. Lorna Cole (Rene Ruso) is an internal affairs agent who is tough and happens to run across Sergant Riggs (Mel Gibson) and the movie falls into a struggle between Riggs and Cole. There is the subtle desire within Riggs character that being the male he must always be dominant over the female, and this is seen in the scene where he brings Cole into the male toilets to talk. This idea of male dominance comes out even more in the scene where they are comparing scars. The whole concept evolves around the desire for the male to emerge once again as the dominant sex while the female sex is fighting to take that role. In the end the female is not forced back into the role of the house-wife, but rather as the man's servant. She is welcome to take on stronger roles as long as the man is always superior.I cannot remember the first two Lethal Weapons but I find that Lethal Weapon 3 is quite average and only worth a side comment.

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deatman9
1992/05/18

This is the third installment of the Lethal Weapon franchise and what usually happens around this point is the creators are just kind of reusing all the ideas just to make money. This one was in that category..It was not all bad it still had all the fun and action of Riggs and Murtaugh teaming up but we have seen it twice before and they just switch the story line slightly.This movie is about Riggs and Murtaugh who try to bust an Ex cop who is now a arms dealer. They go on the case and in the meantime Riggs might have found a love interest.This was a good movie just not as good as the first. Granted if you saw this one second instead of the second one this one would probably be bette its just the same thing as the other two so still good but nothing new here.

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