Review of Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) by Maineutral R — 16 Jun 2014

A fun, yet very inferior sequel, Lethal Weapon 2 has many action scenes, but there's a lot it needed to cram in there for me. The main leads are still as fun as ever, probably going for a deeper development, and the action scenes are bigger, yet I just felt nothing was specially compelling or memorable. I mean, it wasn't awful, and it's not even a bad movie, just doesn't have that much for me.

The plot is simple and it's very predictable, characters other than the leads are merely established and not developed (but maybe it wasn't all that necessary) and, while the comedy is good, I felt it was a bit more slapstick than actual jokes...yet, I like good slapstick so there's not that huge problem here. I don't know, I liked this, just not as much as the first. The first had something about it, I don't know what it is, but it isn't here. This surely is superior to many other action movies of the time, I'm sure of that. Plus, this is a sequel, and normally those are terrible, but this one is surprisingly very well done, and I guess I can go with that and call myself "satisfied" in some way.

Lethal Weapon 2 is good, not as good as the first, but the chemistry between Gibson and Glover is still enough to hold the entire movie, with all its flaws and all the rest. There's something this lacked, and whatever it is, it still holds up for those that liked the first Lethal Weapon, and for those that like the buddy-cop genre overall. A nice sequel to a classic action film.