Who would be the best anti hero if your heroes are cops? It's cops themselves. In this third outing Lethal Weapon, we shall find Jack Travis an ex cop, who knows the system does something really really bad. He was selling "for destruction" confiscated guns to street thugs. To add more to this situation, he was selling what you call "cop killer" bullets. The type of ammunition that penetrates the bullet proof vests worn by cops, thus the monicker.
It is now up to these two heroes to come up with a strategy to thwart Jack Travis' plans. Coming back here is Leo Getz, that odd ball character that lends comedic touch to this already action packed movie. As this would not be like the other 2 movies prior, they added a romantic angle for our lead, Martin Riggs (played by Mel Gibson). They introduced a heroine in the likes of Lorna Cole (played by Rene Russo). Both characters look great both on screen and script. Both are passionate cops and would use violence as a means of ending discussions with bad guys. They are more of a shoot now explain later type of a couple that lends additonal action scenes for the movie with romance to boot.
Direction was typical of hollywood during this time. Lots of actual stunts, not much or no CGI at all I don't know, but action scenes do look like real and we love it. Richard Donner for us did a great job with this film. The movie didn't wow us, it didn't leap at us, but it was made as enjoyable as possible as it could be.
Our take on this movie? We love this twist in the franchise and maybe our best movie among them 4. Currently its being shown on Netflix so make sure you add this to your movie marathon.
