Thursday, June 10, 1999

Review – Lethal Weapon

Here’s the buddy movie to end all buddy movies. You can almost see each sentence in the treatment as it was being read to Hollywood producers. Nice family man cop (did we mention he’s Black? We’re thinking a Danny Glover type) gets partnered up with a wacky psych job cop (hey, can’t Mel Gibson do a pretty mean Three Stooges imitation? And the ladies, not to mention the gay men, will love his bare butt if we can work it in somewhere). Our intrepid heroes learn to live with each other and become the best of friends while blowing the hell out of most of Los Angeles. Amazingly enough, despite its formulaic nature it isn’t really all that bad a movie. I’m particularly fond of Gary Busey’s portrayal of Mr. Joshua, the psychotic mercenary enforcer for the bad guys’ drug gang. Mildly amusing

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