Platicsco
Good story, Not enough for a whole film
Ella-May O'Brien
Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
Billy Ollie
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
benaboo
I think one of the reasons people aren't as crazy about the fourth film in one of my favorite franchises is because of how comedic it is. One minute this is an action movie next it's a silly comedy and I actually commend it for that because both of those aspects really work. I know that's not really how the first two movies were but I like it in this one. The chemistry between Mel Gibson and Danny Glover is still there but there's also a good back and forth between Chris Rock and Joe Pesci. They have two really funny scenes together and they work so well because these two guys are both loud mouths in their own right. There is just a lot of chemistry in this movie. Mel Gibson and Rene Russo have fantastic chemistry that I as an aspiring actor would love to have with an actress someday. Jet Li in my opinion is the most memorable villain in the franchise. This is not the best Lethal Weapon movie but it's one of the most fun. It has so many great moments. Towards the end Joe Pesci talks about his backstory and you can't help but feel sorry for the little guy or at least I did. Whoever thought that Joe Pesci should be nominated for a Razzie Award has no heart. This movie is not as good as Lethal Weapon or Lethal Weapon 2 but it's an improvement over Lethal Weapon 3. I personally enjoy every movie in the franchise and I hope Lethal Weapon 5 happens. I will be paying money to see it if it comes along.
jessegehrig
An R rated sit-com, oh sorry, an R rated action sit-com. Clichéd comedy, tired stunt scenes, everyone just mails it in from their trailers'. The only thing missing from this movie would be a ghost or a talking baby its so silly and hackneyed. Every moment telegraphed to the audience long in advance, joke coming up here your next left, two rights from now comes a fight scene. Let us lament the fortune spent so we might see this movie. Oh well we could have built a house, or a bridge, could have built a park maybe have some bike trails for that park, could have saved some inner city school from failure, could have provided quality dentistry to impoverished hillbillies-oh yeah could have spent that money on making a better movie.
chaos-rampant
The first one was so good it spawned an entire world, one that had one leg in wacky action heroism, the other in weary detectives in a softer noir night. The question was what to do with this world now that it was a lucrative product. They went with a choice that made both narrative and financial sense I guess, family—we'd come, at this point, to see them grow and to feel part of that family, stay for a few impossible stunts. The idea in this particular one was that now they would be truly too old for this stuff and they could mine this for both comedy and drama.But like the other sequels it has no vision, it just wraps a product. Again one thing after another. We had Riggs girlfriend last time, now we get Murtaugh's son-in-law. Sons and granddaughters. The whole is slicker, feels even more produced, like a family Mission Impossible. It ends with a picture taken of the whole family as a last goodbye, cosy but tired.Surprisingly, we have here the least weak villains of the whole series.
BA_Harrison
In the first Lethal Weapon, it was just L.A. cops Riggs and Murtaugh (Mel Gibson and Danny Glover) against the bad guys. The second film saw the lawmen teaming up with irritating money launderer Leo Getz (Joe Pesci) to defeat the villains. Part three added beautiful but tough internal affairs cop Lorna Cole (Rene Russo) to the gang.This fourth chapter sees loud-mouthed comedian Chris Rock getting in on the action as Detective Lee Butters, as well as the return of series regulars Steve Kahan (as long-suffering Captain Ed Murphy), Darlene Love (as Trish Murtaugh), Traci Wolfe (Rianne Murtaugh), Damon Hines (Nick Murtaugh), Ebonie Smith (Carrie Murtaugh), and Mary Ellen Trainor (as police psychologist Stephanie Woods).Sadly, it's far from a case of 'the more the merrier': the film starts off promisingly enough with a well executed scene that pits Riggs and Murtaugh against a armour-suited loony armed with an assault rifle and a napalm thrower, but quickly settles for precisely the kind of drivel that made part 3 so abysmal, the incessant lame humour and insufferable schmaltz seriously getting in the way of the action.The inanity is briefly interrupted by an exciting car chase scene midway through the movie, but soon returns, continuing unabated until the admittedly fun final smack-down between our two brave cops and evil Chinese killer Wah Sing Ku (kung fu star Jet Li), after which we get even more excessive sentimentality as all the good guys get together to celebrate the births of Riggs' son and Roger's grandson. Gack!4.5 out of 10, rounded up to 5 for being the first Hollywood film to give the marvellous Li the exposure he deserves.
