benaboo This is the weakest film in the Lethal Weapon franchise but that doesn't mean it's bad. Mel Gibson and Danny Glover still have the chemistry and there is some good humor and drama. Joe Pesci is good as usual but he looks ridiculous with blonde hair. This movie introduced the character played by Rene Russo and she and Mel Gibson have fantastic chemistry. They work really well together in these films and Ransom. The series in general does not have the most memorable villains but the villain in this film is by far the weakest. Also this movie has the worst opening of the entire franchise. The first film began with a suicide. The second began with a car chase. The fourth began with Riggs and Murtaugh trying to stop a madman dressed in what looked like Tony Stark's first Iron Man suit. This movie begins with Riggs and Murtaugh trying to stop a bomb from going off and a cat shows up and it's just ridiculous. That could have worked as an individual scene in the movie like the toilet scene in Lethal Weapon 2 but not as the opening scene. Don't make the same mistake Lethal Weapon 5. I guess the opening credits beforehand made up for there not being a terrific opening scene. As I said this movie is not as good as the other three films but it's still pretty good. It has one of the best songs used in the franchise: Runaway Train by Elton John and Eric Clapton.

OllieSuave-007 This is another action-packed cop sequel pairing up again Mel Gibson as Martin Riggs and Danny Glover as Roger Murtaugh on a mission to stop a corrupt cop from his illegal arms dealing. From start to finish, it's a non-stop rush of humor and action, from the attempted bomb dismantling incident to the gangster shootout.Gibson and Glover continued their at times frustrated partnership but spelled great chemistry together and delivered enough humor to keep the film engaging enough to go along with the mad rush of all the action scenes. Riggs' daredevil stunts and Murtaugh's too-old-for-this-s?it mantra continue to become two intriguing focal points in the story. The addition of Rene Russo as Lorne Cole at first spelled headaches for the cops, but later on provided some great chemistry with Mel Gibson and a funny love/hate relationship. There is also some added drama and suspense during the scene where Murtaugh's son interacts with a bad gangster friend. And, Joe Pesci appears again as Leo Getz, proving yet another fast-talking but at times cringe worthy performance. ***spoiler ahead*** Some of the scenes were overkill, especially the part where the rookie cop was fatally wounded in the shootout after he wanted badly to join in on the action ***spoiler ends*** Overall, it's non-stop action from start to finish and is another exciting sequel.Grade B

johnnyboyz Slowly but surely, reasons to be enthusiastic about the Lethal Weapon series are being eroded away. Where once there was substance there is now nothing but chase and second unit material; where once there was a sense of character, now there is a series of sequences which would once open a James Bond film before giving way to narrative and espionage although now prop up meagre action/adventure flicks. If we liked the first Lethal Weapon, then we liked it for its depiction of a man with a reason to live stuck in a profession that often saw him close to death getting lumped with a fellow cop who felt he HAD no reason to live. It was quite funny, often even touching, and made with a correct ethic that saw it know when to have fun and when the second unit stuff wasn't the primary focus. Lethal Weapon 3 teams these two up for more excitement and adventure, excitement and adventure which is no longer exciting and hasn't really got anything fresh in it to have it feel like it's much of an adventure.We've been down the route of crooked cops; African American gun crime and good looking Internal Affairs agents enough times to know the drill by now, and yet at its heart is that twosome of Martin Riggs (Gibson) and Roger Murtaugh (Glover) - that indelible combination which works so much more than it has any right to. Be angry at the film if you must, but reserve a place in your good books for this duo of L.A.P.D. Sergeants, two guys who get the job done in 'book' fashion if 'book' fashion is defined as to jot down exactly what you're about to do as you charge to the crime scene in your police cruiser. They're not hardened enough to be Eastwood's Callaghan, but they are hardened enough not to resemble Jacques Clouseau. Here, we welcome them into their latest escapade via a bomb threat – back when domestic terrorism in the United States could still be treated as if one, big joke in the year's biggest action movie.Their clashing natures are established through how either of them figure one should go about dealing with such a thing, an explosive device located in the ground floor car park of an office building. Riggs, being who he is, decides to charge in ahead of the bomb squad – something which results in the whole structure coming down and both men demoted. The problem here, of course, is with Riggs' behaviour. In the first film, doing what he does here was fine, since he was suicidal; a risk taker, a gambler – he wanted to die on the job because he didn't have the guts to kill himself. Following the culmination of the first film, with Riggs essentially becoming 'cured' of his grief and suicidal thoughts, he shouldn't be attempting these zany ideas at police work. Then there is Murtaugh: a black, suited individual to Riggs' scrawnier white fella'; a man who is STILL on the brink of retirement and is on even thinner ice than before in regards to his family who're nervous that he's been busted down to street work in the uniform on the street of L.A. It is, however, whilst on this street patrol that they uncover what will become their latest assignment.The narrative here involves another ex-cop dun-wrong, a man named Jack Travis (Wilson) who's gone rouge and made a fortune out of selling weapons formerly belonging to that of the police force to street thugs who're itching to get their hands on one. Travis works under a façade of housing development construction, something really handy when the time comes to rid his enterprise of someone who lets him down when one spots that small stretch of inconspicuous ground used to funnel the cement out of the truck mixer. While the goals of both Travis and Gary Busey's villain from the first film are similar, Travis is a bad guy cut more from 'stock' than one would have liked and doesn't carry the effective threat really required.As was with the last film, a piece weaving into its proceedings the item of Apartheid rule in South Africa that was still prominent at the time, some sort of strand on African American gun crime, and how easy it is for youngsters of this ilk to fall into such a thing, is present in the narrative. Unfortunately, it is done so with a sense of uneasy grace more so caressed into the story with a consummate hand. Both films want you to leave the piece with a newfound sense of awareness on a topic, but the weight of this latter issue is as such out of its clumsy presence than its deep, affective and residing poise. Again, the decision to essentially put these two characters up against such a thing (in the form of someone instigating this gun crime) is too easy and clutters the film where a different director not looking to pull such obvious sociological punches with this premise might've made better. The film is too easy; too slick for its own good, there's an oiled arrogance to it which is never omnipresent enough for it to be truly agitating, but it's enough to warrant taking against the film overall. It's undemanding and buoyed by whatever decent second unit material it has, but so was the first entry and that seemed capable of a whole lot more than "3" ever musters up.

deatman9 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.