Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) is no ordinary cop. He's a Mad Max gone maniacal, a man whose killing expertise & suicidal recklessness make him a Lethal Weapon to anyone he works against. Or with.
Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) is an easygoing homicide detective with a loving family, a big house & a pension he doesn't want to lose. Imagine Murtaugh's shock when he learns his partner is a guy with nothing left to lose: wild-eyed, burnt-out Martin Riggs.
Lethal Weapon is the thrill-packed story of two Vietnam-vets-turned-cops who have just one other thing in common: both hate to work with partners. But their partnership becomes the key to survival when a routine murder investigation leads to all-out, take-no-prisoners, martial-arts-and -machine-guns war with an international heroin ring. Director Richard Donner (Conspiracy Theory, Lethal Weapon 4) moves that war at two speeds: fast & faster. Hot L.A. days & nights explode in one show-topping scene after an other, culminating in a no-holds-barred battle between Riggs & his Angel-of-Death nemesis (Gary Busey)
- an electrifying sequence incorporating three martial-art styles & requiring four full nights to film. Fierce, fast & frequently funny, Lethal Weapon fires off round after round of can't-miss entertainment.