The Ending Of Lethal Weapon 2 Explained
The Ending Of Lethal Weapon 2 Explained Warner Bros. Pictures
By Jim Rowley/April 15, 2021 9:56 am EDT
These days, hardly a year goes by without another buddy cop movie. It s a tried-and-true genre that s worked for decades. And while there s no consensus on which movie was the first buddy cop movie, one of the earliest was
In the Heat of the Night in 1967, which starred Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger. But the movies that established this film formula often draw inspiration from 80s pop culture staples like
48 Hours and the
Lethal Weapon 2 premiered in 1989. This time, Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Murtaugh (Danny Glover) found themselves up against Arjen Rudd, the crooked South African consul who was the head of a drug smuggling operation. Things quickly got personal for Riggs when he found out the South Africans had murdered his wife. And like any good buddy cop movie,