80s Weapon

Lethal Weapon (1987)

Director Richard Donner helms this quintessential 80s buddy cop film staring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. An old cop and a suicidal cop work together to find out why a hooker was murdered.

I was expecting that the plot of the film would be pretty bad given that the 80s was a real haven for action films with terrible plots but while the plot is not especially original it does not get excessively silly. In the two main characters at least the film does manage to squeeze some real characters into the film which is again fairly unusual for the genre. Over all this film is probably one of the best from this period in the genre but is still not that realistic in the end.

4/5