Lethal Weapon 2 is a 1989 action comedy film directed by Richard Donner, and starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Derrick O'Connor and Joss Ackland. It is the first sequel to the 1987 film Lethal Weapon, and it is part of the Lethal Weapon film series. Gibson and Glover respectively reprise their roles as LAPD officers Martin Riggs (Gibson) and Roger Murtaugh (Glover), who this time have to protect an irritating federal witness (Pesci), ...
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Lethal Weapon 2 is a 1989 action comedy film directed by Richard Donner, and starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Derrick O'Connor and Joss Ackland. It is the first sequel to the 1987 film Lethal Weapon, and it is part of the Lethal Weapon film series. Gibson and Glover respectively reprise their roles as LAPD officers Martin Riggs (Gibson) and Roger Murtaugh (Glover), who this time have to protect an irritating federal witness (Pesci), while taking on a gang of South African drug dealers, who are hiding behind diplomatic immunity.
The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Editing.
The story opens with LAPD Sergeants Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh engaged in a car chase with a red BMW. After it crashes, they move in to arrest the driver, but find he has escaped. Searching the car, they discover the trunk is full of South African Krugerrands (gold coins which were illegal in the U.S. due to sanctions against the South African apartheid regime). Later that...
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