Lethal Weapon 3
Superstars Mel Gibson and Danny Glover return with director Richard Donner for Lethal Weapon 3, the third in the phenomenally successful action series. In this film, Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) is only eight days away from retirement and his partner, Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson), once again manages to get them both into hot water with both the LAPD and the bad guys, who this time are Jack Travis (Stuart Wilson) and a gang of hoodlums selling armor-piercing bullets. Joe Pesci returns as the fast-talking schmuck Leo Getz. A new addition to the cast is Rene Russo as Lorna Cole, a sergeant from internal affairs sent to investigate Riggs and Murtaugh, but who ultimately ends up falling in love with the caffeinated Riggs.
Director: Richard Donner
Starring: Mel Gibson,Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Stuart Wilson
There are elements in the movie that make it worth seeing, and that set it aside from the routine movies in this genre.
A nonstop action picture with a fair amount of laughs, car chases and exploding buildings.
The movie zips around without any true forward momentum. The stars carry you along, though.
In its third go-round, the Lethal Weapon arsenal is running out of ammunition.
More of the same, but it's now so far removed from any sense of reality, and done with such ham-fisted insistence, it's become a clumsy parody of itself.
Michael Kamen
BMI Film & TV Awards (1993)
Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television
Grammy Awards (1993)
Best Action Sequence
MTV Movie Awards (1993)
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