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Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)<\/strong><\/p>\n Director: Richard Donner<\/strong><\/p>\n Screenplay:\u00a0 Jeffrey Boam; <\/strong>story by Shane Black, Warren Murphy; <\/strong>based on characters created by Shane Black<\/strong> Stars: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Joss Ackland, Derrick O’Connor, Patsy Kensit, Darlene Love, Traci Wolfe, Steve Kahan, Mark Rolston, Jeanette Goldstein, Nester Serrano, Grand L. Bush <\/strong>and Dean Norris<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Tagline: The magic is back!<\/em><\/p>\n The Plot…<\/strong><\/p>\n LA Detective Martin Riggs and his partner, Detective Murtaugh are tasked with keeping Leo Getz alive long enough to testify in a federal case.\u00a0 When an attempt is made on Getz’s life, Riggs and Murtaugh discover that Arjen Rudd, a South African diplomat, has put together a crime organization using “diplomatic immunity” to further his enterprise.<\/p>\n Without hard evidence Riggs and Murtaugh can’t move forward with an arrest.\u00a0 When Arjen Rudd discovers that Riggs and Murtaugh are inquiring about him, Rudd uses his politcal influence to get them ordered to back off.<\/p>\n Any bets on if that will happen?<\/p>\n The magic is back!<\/em><\/p>\n Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Lethal Weapon 2<\/em> was nominated for one Academy Award<\/em> for Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing – <\/em>Robert G. Henderson, Alan Robert Murray<\/strong><\/p>\n Lethal Weapon 2<\/em> earned more money at the box office than the original film which is unusal for a sequel.<\/p>\n Shane Black’s original script for Lethal Weapon 2<\/em> was a much darker and more action-oriented film than what was made.\u00a0 In the end of Black’s script Riggs is killed saving Murtaugh.\u00a0 The studios wanted Riggs to live because they wanted more sequels.\u00a0 So Jeffrey Boam was brought in to write the screenplay.<\/p>\n Lethal Weapon 2<\/em> features a reunion of sorts – Jenette Goldstein (Meagan Shapiro) and Mark Rolston (Hans) also appeared in Aliens<\/em> (1986), as Vasquez and Drake.<\/p>\n Joe Pesci is perfect as Leo Getz.<\/p>\n Lethal Weapon 2<\/em> leans much more into comedy than the original.<\/p>\n Lethal Weapon (1987)<\/strong> <\/em>rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) Director: Richard Donner Screenplay:\u00a0 Jeffrey Boam; story by Shane Black, Warren Murphy; based on characters created<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,51,63,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42473,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42452\/revisions\/42473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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