Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

TheLittleSongbird Talking about the other films for a minute, while not perfect, the first film is very good and one of the best buddy-cop films there is (important to the development of them too). 'Lethal Weapon 2' was almost as good, and while 'Lethal Weapon 3' was a little disappointing it was still fun.Which is pretty much the same personal opinion for 'Lethal Weapon 4', though a slight improvement over the third. Like the third film, its weak link is the story, except it's even messier than that and sometimes has a going through the motions, tame feel, especially when one can't help comparing to the first two. It also could have done with having less going on and less characters, it did feel over-stuffed and muddled.'Lethal Weapon 4's' script is also the weakest in this component of the series. Not awful, as some of it is very funny and still intrigues, but there seemed to be too much of an emphasis on sentimentality and especially humour. The humour works better, because there are actually some funny moments like the dentist scene and the fried rice line but there were other parts where it was overdone. The sentimentality really doesn't work, am aware it's for character development but it was done in a very mawkish and under-cooked way and felt really odds and tacked on with the rest of the film.Was mixed on Chris Rock. Was expecting him to be a disaster and be completely out of place. The good news is that he is a little better than expected, there are times where he is amusing and has some good lines and moments with the rest of the cast. Not so good is that he featured in the film too heavily and some of Rock's shtick is overdone and annoying, when you already have Joe Pesci as a motor-mouth it feels overkill.However, the way 'Lethal Weapon 4' is shot and designed screams slick and stylish while Richard Donner once again directs with an assured hand. The score is atmospheric and groovy.Parts of the script doe entertain hugely and crackle in wit and tension, especially the aforementioned moments.Once again, the action is slick and bursts with excitement and tension, with terrific stunts and the sheer scale of them being worthy of huge admiration. The freeway scene and Jet Li's final fight are two of the series' best action sequences It is very easy to see why the chalk and cheese chemistry of the polar opposite characters of Riggs and Murtaugh became so popular, very rarely in a buddy-cop film has this kind of chemistry been so entertaining and perfectly pitched.Mel Gibson continues to excel in a performance as witty and intense has before. Danny Glover gives Murtaugh the right amount of spirit, subtlety and no-nonsense attitude.Joe Pesci, despite the character being a thrown-in plot device, is closer to the funny character he was in the second and not the irritating one in the third. Rene Russo's role is not as fresh and fairly side-lined but she is a lovely presence. While underused, Jet Li is a calmly sinister villain with some truly indestructibly awesome fighting skills, for me the second best overall villain of the series after Gary Busey in the original.In summary, fun if not blowing the mind. Doesn't see the series going out with a bang, but a long way from a whimper despite a few sizeable flaws threatening to make it so. 7/10 Bethany Cox

Bag_of_Cancer This sequel was decent, but it definitely didn't come anywhere close to the grittiness and intensity of the first two. The Chinese storyline was incredibly weak and uninteresting; the proposed neo-Nazi terrorist plot from the first script sounds far more intriguing than what we got from the Triad in this, even if Germans/neo-Nazis have been done to death in cinema. There were a lot of characters in this, which can be nice, but then nobody really stands out, which happened in this one. Adding Chris Rock's character "Butters" was completely unnecessary, although I did find a bit of humor in some of the misunderstood gay jokes, admittedly. The tone of the movie was much more light-hearted than the first two, but about on par with the third in that it was more comedic and sentimental than gritty and hard-hitting. The action scenes were great, especially the brutal final showdown, but it takes a lot of doing nothing to get to the good stuff, which is about three big sequences spread throughout the movie (the opening encounter with the pyromaniac at the start, the highway chase near the middle, and the warehouse sequence at the end).The running gag was Murtaugh and Riggs ("finally") getting too old to do the things they used to, and it works pretty well, but it's also a bit sad to see. Murtaugh was always too old even in the first movie, but Riggs was young and a fearless ass kicking machine in the first three, and in this one he's almost a shell of his former self. He's getting beat up and outpaced by just about everyone around him, and he's no longer the kung fu guy, this time around relying more on a brawling style, which I don't understand how or why that was changed. Sure, you can't move as fast when you're older, but to change an entire fighting style seems unrealistic. That's just one of the downfalls of this sequel, though.The Chinese sucked as villains. They weren't threatening enough. Jet Li's character was silent fury, sulking in a room until he had to throw down, but that's about it. He was criminally underused, and it seems like his abilities were toned down for the final fight in order for Riggs and Murtaugh to beat him. I could tell Mr. Joshua from LW1 and the Aryans from LW2 meant business. I could somewhat believe Jack Travis from LW3 was psychotic and brutal. I really didn't care about the Chinese villains in this one. Something was really lacking with them.Overall, this one is pretty interchangeable with LW3, but both are a huge step down from LW1 and LW2. Don't go into this expecting much.

Harriet Deltubbo I saw this movie for the first time when it was released in the theaters. For all practical purposes, this is a bad film. The best way that I can describe the overall tone is a cross between an episode of the TV show Jake and the Fat Man and one of the Police Academy movies. The acting is fairly poor. Glover plays the same type of character he played in most of his films. The plot is a simple enough story. Even today the story holds up and is suspenseful to watch. There really isn't much more to say about this movie. I will say it again: a movie's function is to entertain. And I am always entertained when watching this one.

view_and_review Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) are at it for a fourth time. That means more nuttiness from Riggs and more complaining and hoarse groaning from Murtaugh. Lethal Weapon 4 was good for one standout reason: Jet Li.Jet Li plays the bad guy in this one and does a good job at it too. His martial arts skills makes for some nice fight scenes. Of course there was the comedic element of Lethal Weapon 4 in Joe Pesci and the addition of Chris Rock.Honestly, for a fourth installment of a movie, LW4 was pretty good. Most franchises fall flat by part two and if they make it to a part three they have totally unraveled. LW4 bucks the trend and performs soundly.