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Wonderfully offbeat film!

Sadly Over-hyped

Fresh and Exciting

Excellent but underrated film

Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) are back fighting a crazy armored guy with a flamethrower. Lorna Cole (Rene Russo) is pregnant. Roger's daughter Rianne is pregnant and secretly married to young detective Lee Butters (Chris Rock). Riggs and Murtaugh is shark fishing with Leo Getz (Joe Pesci) when a Chinese ship almost run them over. They exchange fire and discover a Chinese people smuggling ring. Wah Sing Ku (Jet Li) is the high ranking Triad bad guy. Murtaugh finds a boat full of people and he takes them home with him. The city can't find insurance for the guys to be on the streets so they made them captains to hang out on desk duty. Instead they take Butters along on their investigation.I thought Murtaugh was retiring. Even Riggs is getting too old for this sh!t. That should be enough but this is crazier, more explosive, jokier, and more ridiculous. It is overloaded. What started as a fun duo has expanded each and every sequel into a whole gang. It overshoot its target and has become an unmitigated mess. There are way too much story and too many characters. It takes forever to get the story moving because the audience has to catch up with all the characters, both new and old. It's odd that the addition this time is an angry Chris Rock. He's probably the funniest guy in the cast but his character is more tiring than funny. Any time the movie starts to move, it gets bog down with jokey side stories and various diversions. Also there isn't any compelling about the investigation. The bad guy Jet Li is revealed right away. The only thing left is for him to do is some kung fu fighting. The rest about the bad guys is meaningless and a waste of time. This is simply a rambling tiresome end to a great franchise.

I saw this movie for the first time when it was released in the theaters. For all practical purposes, this is a bad film. The best way that I can describe the overall tone is a cross between an episode of the TV show Jake and the Fat Man and one of the Police Academy movies. The acting is fairly poor. Glover plays the same type of character he played in most of his films. The plot is a simple enough story. Even today the story holds up and is suspenseful to watch. There really isn't much more to say about this movie. I will say it again: a movie's function is to entertain. And I am always entertained when watching this one.

The first one was so good it spawned an entire world, one that had one leg in wacky action heroism, the other in weary detectives in a softer noir night. The question was what to do with this world now that it was a lucrative product. They went with a choice that made both narrative and financial sense I guess, family—we'd come, at this point, to see them grow and to feel part of that family, stay for a few impossible stunts. The idea in this particular one was that now they would be truly too old for this stuff and they could mine this for both comedy and drama.But like the other sequels it has no vision, it just wraps a product. Again one thing after another. We had Riggs girlfriend last time, now we get Murtaugh's son-in-law. Sons and granddaughters. The whole is slicker, feels even more produced, like a family Mission Impossible. It ends with a picture taken of the whole family as a last goodbye, cosy but tired.Surprisingly, we have here the least weak villains of the whole series.

In the first Lethal Weapon, it was just L.A. cops Riggs and Murtaugh (Mel Gibson and Danny Glover) against the bad guys. The second film saw the lawmen teaming up with irritating money launderer Leo Getz (Joe Pesci) to defeat the villains. Part three added beautiful but tough internal affairs cop Lorna Cole (Rene Russo) to the gang.This fourth chapter sees loud-mouthed comedian Chris Rock getting in on the action as Detective Lee Butters, as well as the return of series regulars Steve Kahan (as long-suffering Captain Ed Murphy), Darlene Love (as Trish Murtaugh), Traci Wolfe (Rianne Murtaugh), Damon Hines (Nick Murtaugh), Ebonie Smith (Carrie Murtaugh), and Mary Ellen Trainor (as police psychologist Stephanie Woods).Sadly, it's far from a case of 'the more the merrier': the film starts off promisingly enough with a well executed scene that pits Riggs and Murtaugh against a armour-suited loony armed with an assault rifle and a napalm thrower, but quickly settles for precisely the kind of drivel that made part 3 so abysmal, the incessant lame humour and insufferable schmaltz seriously getting in the way of the action.The inanity is briefly interrupted by an exciting car chase scene midway through the movie, but soon returns, continuing unabated until the admittedly fun final smack-down between our two brave cops and evil Chinese killer Wah Sing Ku (kung fu star Jet Li), after which we get even more excessive sentimentality as all the good guys get together to celebrate the births of Riggs' son and Roger's grandson. Gack!4.5 out of 10, rounded up to 5 for being the first Hollywood film to give the marvellous Li the exposure he deserves.