Lethal Weapon 3 (Director's Cut)
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• Anamorphic
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Director's Cut
• Dolby
• DTS Surround Sound
• DVD-Video
• Widescreen
• NTSC
In Theaters : 15 May, 1992
DVD Release : 06 June, 2000 |
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Lethal Weapon 3 (Director's Cut) description
The lightest of the first three films, Lethal Weapon 3 finds everyone occupying comfortable positions like students who always choose to sit in the same classroom seats. Mel Gibson and Danny Glover return as LAPD partners whose working method consists of the former diving into danger and the latter holding back. (The sequence set in the parking garage of a building, in which Gibson inadvertently trips a switch that makes a timed explosive device speed up, is priceless.) Joe Pesci once again plays a motor-mouth pest, and while the story is pretty much forgettable, it does introduce the best new dynamic in the series, a romance between Gibson and Rene Russo's equally tough but attractive cop. --Tom Keogh |
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The Charm's Still There, But It's Rather Weak This Time Around
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Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) and Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) are still together, but Murtaugh is supposed to retire in eight days. As Murtaugh always says he's just "getting too old for this s**t." However, he loves his job and has no idea what he's going to do when he retires. Meanwhile he and Riggs become involved in a case involving a massive arms dealer. They are pulled from the case after internal affairs takes over, but through the help of Leo Getz (Joe Pesci) get a lead that internal had no knowledge of. It turns out that an ex-cop turned crook, Jack Travis (Stuart Wilson) is smuggling confiscated police weapons and selling them on the streets. Riggs and Murtaugh join forces with the chief internal affairs officer on the case, Lorna Cole (Rene Russo) to catch Travis in action and bring his illegal dealings to a close. Murtaugh takes the case very personally when he ends up killing one of the friends of his son, Nick (Damon Hines) in a shootout. Meanwhile, romance blossoms between Lorna and Riggs.
LETHAL WEAPON 3 is the weakest of the movies in the LETHAL WEAPON series. The plot attempts to have a subtle message about the evils of guns in the hands of normal citizens, but being an action movie, the message tends to take the focus off of the real point of the movie, the relationship between Murtaugh and Riggs. They've gone through a lot together and as Murtaugh prepares for retirement, their friendship becomes even deeper. The film seems lacking in action. Of course, it opens with the destruction of a huge building and ends in a coda after the credits with the same thing. Sandwiched in between are some action sequences, but the emotional instability tarnishes just about everything in the film and makes the action sequences seem rather low key.
Gibson and Glover are in top form and Joe Pesci steals most of the scenes he appears in again. Rene Russo is a nice addition to the cast, allowing Lorna to bring some balance to the usually insane Riggs. I also enjoyed the fact that Capt. Ed Murphy (Steve Kahan) had a larger role than usual. Overall, the film is basically an average action picture, but the chemistry between the two protagonists augments the movie a notch or two. Recommended for fans of the series or any fans of any of the stars. |
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