The gang's all here.
With personal crises and age weighing in on them, LAPD officers Riggs and Murtaugh must contend with a deadly Chinese crime lord trying to get his brother out of prison.
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Classical in form, unpretentious, resolved and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
- contemporarynostalgic
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Sep 20256/10
With their joints creaking almost as much as the script, this instalment of the franchise sees “Riggs” (Mel Gibson) and “Murtaugh” (Danny Glover) start they way they mean to go on - pyrotechnically! This time, it’s the encroaching Triad gangs from China who are involved in some people smuggling and currency forging that could end up facilitating an all-out war in Chinatown between the menacingly stylish “Wah Sing Ku” (Jet Li) and local mobster “Uncle Benny” (Kim Chan). Just to add to the mayhem, IAD detective “Lorna” (Rene Russo) is about to have a baby (with “Riggs”); his partner is soon to be a grandfather courtesy of his daughter and another fellow cop, “Butters” (Chris Rock) and then there is the wacky “Leo” (Joe Pesci) whose words of wisdom and frenetic techniques have to be heard/seen to be believed. “Murtaugh” takes pity on the recently arrived “Hong” family and sufficiently narks the Triad so they invade and set fire to his home. He and “Riggs” only just manage to save the family and now the battle lines are drawn. Chris Rock and Joe Pesci just annoyed me from start to finish, but there is compensating chemistry from Gibson and Glover who know each other inside out by now a
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Cast
- Mel GibsonMartin Riggs
- Danny GloverRoger Murtaugh
- Joe PesciLeo Getz
- Rene RussoLorna Cole
- Chris RockDet.Lee Butters
- Jet LiWah Sing Ku
- Steve KahanCaptain Murphy
- Kim ChanBenny Chan
- Darlene LoveTrish Murtaugh
- Traci WolfeRianne Murtaugh
Crew
- Richard DonnerDirector
- Channing GibsonScreenplay
- Andrzej BartkowiakDirector of Photography
- Eric ClaptonOriginal Music Composer
- David SanbornOriginal Music Composer
- Michael KamenOriginal Music Composer
- Dallas PuettEditor
- Frank J. UriosteEditor
- Eric StrandEditor
- Joel SilverProducer
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