Name: Insomniac Film Festival #62: Lethal Weapon
Item: Lethal Weapon
Author: @rvgenaille

-via IMDb.com

It's hard to look back on some films. Especially when the star of that film has gone sideways in his very public personal life where his words and actions reveal a bigotry, sexism and racism that is both scary and unacceptable. I am not concerned that many appear to have forgiven Mel Gibson his trespasses, or blamed his addictions for his bigotry. I find it hard to watch his films now, just like I find it difficult to watch a Woody Allen film or a Casey Affleck film.

Which is too bad because Lethal Weapon, and Lethal Weapon 2 for that matter, are really great films. Lethal Weapon 3 and Lethal Weapon 4 are not good films. The first two, however, would stand the test of time were it not for the later revelations about the bigotry in the Gibson persona. He gives a strong performance, as does Danny Glover and Gary Busey.

I generally enjoy this movie about a police detective partnered with a suicidal, um, partner who are hunting a murderer, uncovering a much larger, more in depth, drug operation going on. It is quite good. One of director Richard Donner's best. Dinner has had a very mixed career, the first two Lethal Weapons, Ladyhawke, Scrooged, Superman: The Movie being highlights, his later career moving more towards a lot of sameness, bland.

This one is worth seeing but it's difficult to enjoy anymore.

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