Today is my birthday 28th December, while celebrating I watch another 80's action personal favorite action buddy cop flick of all time Lethal Weapon (1987). I love, love this film to death. The one and the only best film in the franchise and 80's with First Blood (1982), Rambo: First Blood Part II, Cobra, Commando, Predator, RoboCop, Aliens, The Terminator and Die Hard, it is filled with Lethal bad-ass action sequences that you think and imagine your in the movie. It is filled with rush, excitement, entertainment, it has Christmas, Mel Gibson, Danny Glover and Gary Busey in the most excitement action flick of all time. It is Roger's 50 birthday in this movie so we both have birthday today.

Lethal Weapon was written by Shane Black (Predator) and directed from Richard Donner who directed great this film. It has ton's of action, references back on Vietnam war, explosions gun battles. There is a lot of automatic weapons, grenades, hand guns and they are used well.

This movie spawned 3 sequels and a TV series, so popular this movie become. It is very fun action film. It has little humor, action and little drama in it. It is filled with so many classic moments: I love the desert action sequences that was the best in the film. When Riggs and Murtaugh attempt to rescue Murtaugh's daughter Rianne (Traci Wolfe) in the desert, Riggs uses Heckler & Koch PSG-1 sniper rifle, like a sniper he is and kills many bad guys. Rianne steals a limousine and a chopper chases her. I love the torture scene in which Mr. Joshua (Gary Busey) tortures Riggs under the shower Electric Shock torture memorable scene. You can see this scene in The Last Boy Scout (1991) with Bruce Willis in which his daughter Darien is watching this movie. Great explosion you see Dixie's house been blow practical effect, real explosion. I love the music tune theme by Michael Kamen.

Lethal Weapon (1987) and the first Die Hard (1988) are the best action movies ever made. I miss the '80's , this was my childhood film with Under Siege (1992) I watched them constantly as a kid. This was Mel Gibson's action movie with The Road Warrior (1981) that made him in to an action star. Predator 2 and Lethal Weapon made Danny Glover in to action star. The best bad-ass is Gary Busey as Mr. Joshua as bad-ass character. The man can play so well.

A young girl jumps out of the building and kill her self. LAPD Sergeant Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) get's the case and find's out, she is a daughter of one of his Vietnam buddy's back from Nam who saved his life. Murtaugh is calm type and family man, decides to work on this case to find a clue. He get's team up with LAPD Detective Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson), a cop and former Special Forces sniper who lives on the ragged edge and who is a suicidal transfer from narcotics to homicide. The suicide of a young girl turns out to be a murder, she was poisoned by overdose they uncover a drug smuggling ring that involves a criminal gang comprised of mercenaries and former members of a CIA / special forces "Black Ops" unit with ties to the Vietnam War. These guys will turn up the heat. The fight between Mr. Joshua and Riggs is a bad-ass in the finale I love it.

For the people who hate Christmas: "Goddamn Christmas!" Mr. Joshua (Gary Busey) shoots a T.V. displaying a Christmas commercial with his Colt XM177 Commando at Murtaugh's home. He destroys a police car with his machine riffle. For me Gary Busey steals the show. I love the guy and love he re teamed with Danny Glover in Predator 2. I miss these kind of movies action type now days. Today is nothing but lousy, lazy CGI. I want movies like this back: First Blood, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Cobra, Lethal Weapon, Predator, The Terminator, Bloodsport, Kickboxer, Cyborg, Aliens, Die Hard, The Terminator, RoboCop, The Killer and many more action movies from the 80's those are my movies that I enjoy watching them.

Lethal Weapon (1987) is the best bad-ass action flick from the 80's my all time favorite action film. I love, love this film to death. A bus hit's a bad-guys car and his car with grenades explodes bad-ass best explosion sequence in the film ever. I have this film on Blu-ray theatrical cut and Director's cut on VHS I prefer the theatrical cut of the movie.

Lethal Weapon is the eighties action film that kicked off the whole buddy-cop trope in Hollywood. It's directed by Richard Donner (Superman II) and penned by Shane Black (Predator). Our cast of stars features Danny Glover and Mel Gibson in the lead roles with Gary Busey as a henchman to the main villain, The General played by Mitchell Ryan. I decided to pair the film with a nice Indica like King Louis XIII from Marley Natural. It's a relaxing strain that provides a good deal of happiness. A good combination to dive right into a badass picture like this. The earthy tastes and piny aromas pair well with a good beer too. If that's your kind of thing.

The film follows the pairing of two LAPD detectives. Martin Riggs is a detective that is psychologically broken and emotionally damaged following the death of his wife. Roger Murtaugh is a veteran cop that works hard to support his family. They get paired together as partners working various crimes and bonding. Roger is constantly tested by Riggs' inherently psychotic behavior. He almost gives up. However, after things go south and the duo bands together to put an end to a very dangerous group of drug smugglers called Shadow Company.

The film features cheesy action film acting and witty dialogue, mostly between Gibson and just about everyone he comes in contact with. His Martin Riggs character is iconic. He stands as one of the best cops in movie history. Danny Glover is the perfect straight man but it's kind of unfortunate that he was so tight cast. Busey is badass in this movie. He looks awesome and does a great job of projecting himself as menacing. Tom Atkins is good too, his role is minimal, but he gives it everything. That is up until his death, which is rather goofy looking.

Lethal Weapon also has an amazing soundtrack provided by Michael Kamen and Eric Clapton. Yes, that Eric Clapton. The howling saxophone and blazing guitar set upon a sprawling Los Angeles cityscape provide an amazing atmosphere for the story. The soundtrack provides a great technique for building suspense that gets paid off with intense action scenes.

This movie is a hell of a ride. It builds an amazing world that gets explored at break-neck speed. In some cases it's far too fast-paced to be bad. All of the faults with the film are steamrolled by the constant action. The fight scenes are brutal and unrelenting. The final showdown is a thing of pure eighties glory. I love it. It's a classic that should be enjoyed by everyone at least once! There's a reason that It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia loves it so much.

The King Louis XIII paired really well with Lethal Weapon. It tasted so good, I ended up having an extra snapper or two. The cannabis had me feeling really relaxed and sunken into my couch. The uplifting effects had me alert and ready for the suspense of the action scenes, which were numerous. The effects were long lasting and are still prevalent when writing this review. Although it feels great, the taste and smell are the leading factors with this particular batch from Marley Natural. Check it out if you can!

All the clichés meet here: this film is undeniably an 80's action flick. It's got the cop one-two punch, that light crime atmosphere and intrigue revolving around a death (suicide...or not ?), cheap campy laughs and lengthy action scenes, soundtrack full of saxophone or bluesy reverb guitars, the "I'm too old for this s*it !" line and a very (too) obvious divide between the good guys fighting the good fight versus the definite bad guys.

They really could've used lots more of the comedic potential between a completely insane (like, more than usual) and unleashed Mel Gibson and his black older counterpart Danny Glover whose characters are both likable in their own different ways, naturally. There are at least two full action scenes that seem endless and feel pointless after a certain point where if you're not a fanatic of explosions and electric-paced successive bursts of motion you're probably going to feel every second of them pretty quickly. Too much action - not enough laughs. That's for sure.

It's too uneven barring that anyways. The film settles itself nicely at the beginning, develops decently as we get to know more about the plot and the lead characters (how great a shot Mel Gibson really is, etc) but then those monolithic chunks of action... it's too disparate in how much humor is supplied, how much action was needed, and the plot wears thin way too soon. Finally the film is also quite politicized: the 'black and white partners make nice' rationale, the apartheid sign on the fridge that's well emphasized... it's not just an innocent little comedy-action flick, there's real underlying social commentary here.

Not good enough, it doesn't matter how slightly more semi-original it was when it came out in 1987: 5/10.