Way back when Mel Gibson was claimed as an Aussie and not completely fucked in the head, he had some wonderful movies grace our screens in the form of Tequila Sunrise, Mad Max and of course, Bird On A Wire. But by far the best of these, discounting sequel's, is Lethal Weapon.
This movie is one of a couple of films credited with redefining the urban action genre and perfecting the buddy cop formula that choked us almost to death in the late 80's and early 90's. Of course, 3 movies followed as we watched Sgt. Murtaugh and Sgt. Riggs completely fuck up LA over and over again, leaving behind what seemed like thousand's of bad guys bodies all over the place with not a single consequence. And that's the way action should be. Be damned with that shit, we want explosions and gun fights. There are plenty of those over the course of the series, but they will have their day too. Let's continue with the Original Lethal Weapon, Written by a young Shane Black and Directed by the veteran Richard Donnor.
Soon to be fucking rebooted.....
This was one of my best memories as a kid. It had violence, swearing and tits. Thats what I wanted from my movies then, for the hero to shoot the villain in the head, call him something sweary and fuck the hot girl. Come on, now THAT'S a movie.
It could have been a lot different if this was Riggs....
Ah, the nostalgia, as I think back to the first time I saw this movie. Riggs was such a bad-arse wasn't he? He just didn't give a fuck and poor old Murtaugh just want's be alive to see his family after work. Jesus Christ Martin, just because your wife died in car crash and you keep a special bullet for the occasion, doesn't mean everybody else is miserable and wants bite it, whats your goddamn problem?
This was way before he won an Oscar for flashing his dick at the English
Both Riggs and Murtaugh were in Vietnam and both still carry it around them. But Riggs was in the Special Forces and still carries that around with him as talked about in a few character scenes, and he is a trained sniper, which is cool, so chin up Riggs, you've got 3 sequel's to go yet.
And aw fuck, do I need to see this......
What happened Mel? You used to be Australian.
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