Lethal
Weapon 4
DOWN &
DIRTY:
Action/Adventure: The detective
buddies are back and must stop
the illegal activities of the
Asian Triad who've brought their
counterfeiting business to Los
Angeles.
NITTY GRITTY:
Detectives Martin Riggs (MEL
GIBSON) and Roger Murtaugh (DANNY
GLOVER) are getting older and
have more things on their minds
than police work.
Murtaugh is about to become a
grandfather, while Riggs is about
to become a daddy with Internal
Affairs inspector Lorna Cole
(RENE RUSSO), even though they're
not married.
After a gun battle and the
discovery of a boatload of
illegal immigrants, the
detectives get down to work. When
they blow up most of downtown
L.A., Riggs and Murtaugh are
promoted to captains, hopefully
to keep them off the street.
Yeah, right.(That would be a
shorter movie, probably a better
one.)
The two old partners discover
that a crooked businessman, Uncle
Benny (KIM CHAN), is involved in
illegally moving immigrants into
the country as slave labor.
They are assisted by their former
sidekick, Leo Getz (JOE PESCI)
and a new detective, Lee Butters
(CHRIS ROCK) who's secretly
married to Murtaugh's daughter.
Wah Sing Ku (JET LI), a member of
the Asian Triad, makes the
conflict personal by grabbing
some immigrants staying with
Murtaugh and tries to turn the
detectives into crispy critters.
Riggs and Murtaugh discover that
Wah Sing Ku is counterfeiting
Asian currency to buy his jailed
brother back from a Chinese
general. They disrupt the
transaction and another gun
battle erupts.
THE ENDING:
Riggs and Murtaugh both go after
Wah Sing Ku, who seems to be
getting the best of them. Then
Murtaugh rams a piece of rebar
through his mid-section. This
just slows him down. Wah Sing Ku
and Riggs get in a to-the-death
slugfest that tosses them into
the water. Luckily, Riggs finds a
leftover machine gun in a sunken
truck and gives Wah Sung Ku some
extra navels.
The pier collapses on Riggs,
trapping him underwater. Murtaugh
regains consciousness, but can't
find Riggs. He uses their 'buddy
powers' to find and save him.
WHAT EVERYONE WILL BE
TALKING ABOUT:
The bad staging of the
stunts, you can see Mel Gibson's
stunt man full face in many
stunts.
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