Review – Lethal Weapon 4

More of the same, maybe for the last time. I don’t want to say that if you’ve seen the first three that you’ve seen this one too, because at some level there must be some kind of difference between mercenaries, neo-nazis, gun runners, and Asian gangsters. Differences in the bad guys aside, however, this is more of the usual vaguely homosexual buddy stuff between the grizzled old black cop and the wacky young (make that “younger” rather than actually young at this point in Mel Gibson’s career) white cop. Plenty of gut-wrenching sentiment, plenty of top-dollar action sequences, and plenty of annoying Joe Pesci. Even some minor shtick by series newcomer Chris Rock can’t save this barker. See if desperate