Personally, this is my favourite flick of the bunch, and it's the film that introduced Joe Pesci's Leo Getz. Anything you need, Leo Getz. Geddit? You should, because it's hilarious. Way back before Mel went spastic, I think I said that in the review of the first one? He was making awesome action movies, this one being Mel, Danny and director Richard Donner's fav film in the series. It also featured a what-was-pretty-awesome-when-I-discovered-self-gratification sex scene between Mel and Patsy Kensit. This is the last one in the series to feature boobs, now lets take a minute to reflect....
Anyway, hands back to the keyboard, it starts with a cool chase scene with Roger bitching about not fucking his wife's car when Riggs drives it, and shooting and helicopter's and stuff in L.A. somewhere.
Murtaugh's daughter Rianne is growed up good and now acting and the other two are just there hanging around being kids still. Riggs doesn't want to bite it anymore and has become a part of the family and also dislocates his shoulder for a bet, tells the station about Rianne's acting debut and uses his charm to bed the lovely young Rika Vandengandenhaass or however the fuck it's spelled, played by the Patsy Kensit. Here we realise that Riggs has a hard-on for blondes.
Before she married a Gallagher. RIP hot Patsy. (She's old now)
Leo Getz is a nice addition to the already established rapport of Riggs and Murtaugh and who could forget that oh-so-true conversation about being fucked at the drive-thru? Leo starts as a witness to the case that our favourite interracial buddy cops are assigned to and after the being-annoyed-the-fuck-out-of beginning to the relationship, he proves to be sometimes helpful in getting what is needed.
I was going going to make a joke about Joe Pesci in Goodfellas but I fucked it up so don't worry about it.
Here's Roger in the toilet instead.
And speaking of that, when Riggs finds Roger reading his Saltwater Sportsman magazine after not showing up for work, it turns out he's sitting on a goddamn bomb, nuts about to be blown the Christ off and he probably hasn't even wiped, Leo runs in and in classic Leo style misinterprets Roger's request of 'lets keep this quiet' to 'get the whole fucking police force, fire brigade, and bomb squad to my house, right the fuck now'.
Back to Patsy for a sec, she works for the bad guys, the South Africans, who are importing Krugerrands and are mixed up with drug smugglers AND racist. As if they weren't hateable enough. But they work at the Saffa consulate so they have Diplomatic Immunity. Does this stop our heroes? Fuck no!
See?
If you haven't witnessed this awesome sequel to an awesome original before, I suggest you stop reading about 3-4 minutes ago, and if you have, let's just bask in the memory of the cool ending and then go and watch it again.
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