Sunday, September 04, 2011

Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)

Riggs and/or Murtaugh in this one are up against slave trading from China, money counterfeiting, babies, homosexual panic, big explosions, to marry or not to marry, a madman with a flamethrower who doesn't really have anything to do with anything, Leo the comic relief, a rabbi as a stand-in, fighting inside a mobile home with plastic walls in a freeway, kung fu, a dentist's laughing gas, confiding in moments of extreme action or danger (a cliché), etc.

Really shallow action film. Openly self-parodic (rather than just tongue-in-cheek), which makes for inevitable awkwardness at the inevitable dramatic moments.

Rating: 49

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