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If you haven't seen 48 Hours with Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy, it is an cop/buddy action film with some light moments from Murphy thrown in.. Give it a try, I think you'll like it. It has a 93% favorable on Rotten Tomatoes.
Best Action Comedy Buddy Cop movie ever made! The Screenplay was written by Shane Black, whom played Hawkins in the PREDATOR movie, where the was writing both Lethal Weapon and The Last Boy Scout.
I can't believe my parents let me watch these movies when I was 9 years old. I loved movies as a kid, it was my thing, and we'd spend a lot of time at the old Drive-In theaters. We saw this one at the Drive-In and remains one of my favourite movies of all time. I miss the Drive-In dearly, but at least the movies live on.
I saw the first movie when I was around 8, on our old VHS player. The tape included "Above The Law, Lethal Weapon and The Terminator", but the first Lethal Weapon movie was definitely a favorite for me
Awesome movie made in the most awesome decade, alongside Beverly Hills Cop and Die Hard. They all had the perfect vibe! Honorable mention here to Gary Busey, very underrated guy. He starred on some of the most cool movies on that period, and later worked with Danny Glover again in Predator 2. This is a cool and chill reaction channel btw, similar to TBR. You know how to edit properly without cut off key scenes, dont talk too much over the dialogue and not overreact every single moment. All that make the experience very smooth for those who are watching with you. I tried to watch some of the reactions to the batman, and it just got on my nerve. I tried 4 videos, and just gave up.
Yes the second movie was a rare film sequel better than the first film. Not just better bad guys but some of the best bad guys in movie history. "Diplomatic Immunity!" There is amazing twist that changes the first film. it has one of the hottest women in movie history. Joe Pesci should have gotten an Oscar nomination for his part. Way better action scenes. The other 2 movies are just ok.
@A S Yeah, but it was the introduction of Jet Li that made it awesome. The scene near the end where Murtaw and Riggs discuss having to fight him hand to hand is the best scene. Neither of them want to do it, but they know they have to.
If you like buddy cop movies, Running Scared (1986) starring Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines is one of the all-time best. It's funny as hell and the leads have great chemistry. If you haven't seen it, you should definitely check it out. You won't regret it.
@@gerstelb Also Joe "Joey Pants" Pantoliano as Snake. (He played Cypher in The Matrix, and Ralph Cifaretto in The Sopranos. He's in a lot of other things as well, but those are two of his best-known roles.)
All, but one of Shane Black's movies are "Christmas movies." I usually do a marathon of them during the season. Plenty of excellent buddy genre entries.
The "Buddy cop" genre is kind of a misnomer, it should be called "buddy action movies" because almost as often as not, they're not cops. "48 Hours" is considered the archetype that kicked it off, and it's about a cop and a convict. A lot of the time, it's a private detective and some other loser ("The Last Boy Scout" "Midnight Run" "The Nice Guys" "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang") or sometimes they go out of the box like a private detective and an amnesiac black-ops assassin ("The Long Kiss Goodnight") or a cop and an assassin-for-hire (The Killer) or a cop and an undead goth guitarist re-animated by a vengeance spirit (The Crow) And then there are certain action movies where the heroes are buddies and cops but it's not really a buddy-action movie. "Bad Boys" and "Running Scared" are about cops who are buddies who even have an odd-couple dynamic, but buddy movies are about characters who wouldn't normally work together being forced to (at least in the first installment if it becomes a franchise). The detectives in these movies start out at the beginning like they're already an old married couple rather than the "two-roosters-in-the-henhouse" alpha males, butting heads. Note that four of the nine movies I just mentioned are Shane Black
@@tempsitch5632 The Crow may indeed be one-of-a-kind (as the continued failed attempts at sequels and reboots seem to prove) but he's certainly not the only undead hero to trade quips with a partner while fighting crime. There was RIPD where they were both undead but that movie bombed into obscurity. There was also a low budget cult movie from 1988 called "Dead Heat" where Treat Williams and Joe Piscicpo are detectives and Treat Williams becomes a zombie that somehow keeps his intellect. And then John Landis made a movie called "Innocent Blood" with Anne Paurilaud from "La Femme Nikita" about a detective teaming up with a vigilante vampire who only feeds from criminals.
@@lw3918 Meh sometimes they’re good. The Gladiator extended cut is great. The Robin Hood extended cut isn’t. The Terminator 2 extended cut is easily better than the theatrical cut. The Shining extended cut is unnecessarily long. So, you know, it depends.
I think Gibson and Glover have probably the greatest chemistry two performers have ever had in these movies. There is definitely a dip in quality, but for me all of the films get by purely on how magically they work together. I also love how, without spoiling anything, the character's arcs evolve perfectly and logically throughout the series, even to the detriment of the action. And, to further emphasise their being polar opposites, even their initials are reflections of each other (MR and RM)!
Shane Black had written some of the action Sequences for PREDATOR, but remained uncredited. He wrote and directed Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Iron Man 3, The Nice Guys, and The Predator. He wrote Lethal Weapon 2, The Last Boy Scouts, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Last Action Hero, The Monster Squad, uncredited rewrites on RoboCop 3, Dead Heat, and The Hunt For Red October. His only unproduced Screenplay was John Carpenter's Shadow Company, which was a cross between "Rambo meets The Exorcist," where undead soldiers from Vietnam come back from beyond the grave to wreak a horrible vengeance against those that betrayed the war.
Hi guys! Just found your channel. Great reaction to a classic movie. All of the Lethal Weapon movies are awesome. I would definitely recommend them. Looking forward to more reactions!
The Lethal Weapon series is a great set of movies. Mel Gibson and Danny Glover are great together. Another Mel Gibson movie that’s good is Air America.
*Please react to the rest of the franchise, you will never get a better chemistry between the actors/characters in film history. btw the term "family" is used rightfully in all four movies, not in the cheesy way fast& furious does*
Funny you mentioned UFC fight at the end. Rorian Gracie of the infamous/famous Gracie family, co-creator of the UFC, was the fight choreographer for this movie. And as you can see at the end, Riggs goes from the arm-lock to the triangle-choke. The movie came out 6 years before the UFC debuted.
Anyone with an affection for these types of flicks owes it to themselves to check out the Ruthless Guide to 80s Action. EVERY 80s action movie is in there.
Lethal Weapon is one of the movies that helped create the Buddy Cop genre. You should watch 48 Hours with Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte. It might be the first real Buddy Cop* film.
To correct you, Rush Hour is actually towards the end of the Buddy Cop Genre. It was huge in the 80s and late 70s. Aside from lethal weapon you got 48hrs,Beverly Hills cop,Tango and cash,turner& hooch,bad boys, showtime, Also plenty of shows
I looked up Traci Wolfe, the actress who played the pretty teenage daughter of Murtaugh. I was shocked to discover that she is 63 years of age, which would make her 27 on the release of Lethal Weapon!
Great series! Looking forward to you guys reacting to the rest. This is one of those franchises that, in many ways, not only stays equally good, but in certain ways gets deeper as it goes. For example, my personal favorite is LW3.
6:35 - Still one of the best scenes in an action movie ever. Really gives Mel Gibsons character depth and didn't shy away from showing the seriousness of it. I wish movies nowadays would be this genuine and honest in showing those things.
This probably has some of the best (modern style) music of any film series (except the end credit song for the first movie). Score by Michael Kamen with Eric Clapton on guitar and Dave Sanborn on sax, with credit songs by George Harrison on 2, and Sting and Elton John on 3. Michael Kamen kind of stole from himself - he used the same note sequence in the “Riggs and Roger” theme that he used in the main theme for the movie The Dead Zone (also an excellent flick - a Stephen King adaptation with Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, and Tom Skerritt).
Nice one. One of my favourites. I think there was just over a year between the releases of Lethal Weapon, The Untouchables and Die Hard. Yes, we were spoilt! Now, are you going to do Lethal Weapon 2? It’s a worthy sequel. 👍
This is a great film, until the last 10-15mins, they have never felt right to me. They knew he was coming, they emptied the house and left the two cops outside knowing how dangerous he was. These two cops were sacrificed so that Riggs could have a fist fight with him. It feels like the writer lost his way in the last act, like he wanted the one on one fight, and couldn't come up with a sensible way to get there, probably because the film was only to be a single throw away buddy cop film until it did really well in the box office.
HEY! If you like "Buddy Cop" movies, I have a REALLY unique one for you! It's called "Alien Nation!" It stars James Caan (from Misery) and Mandy Patinkin (from The Princess Bride). It's a great flick from the 80's and I am SURE you will love it!
At the beginning, I believe the young girl's suic!de's final image is an homage to a famous real suic!de -- the woman was similarly posed, having landed on top of a car, and looking surprisingly peaceful. But the original woman was fully clothed.
there's a movie called Air America starring Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. the Op was mentioned in Lethal Weapon and its about running drugs and weapons in Vietnam. its a very good movie with lots of action and comedy. also, you should watch Maverick starring Gibson and James Garner. Glover does make a cameo in this movie as well. its also an action packed comedy drama worth a movie night. Garner played the original Maverick in the tv series from 1957-62
27:53 - You may have missed the anti-apartheid poster in the Murtaugh house. This is a pet cause of director Richard Donner's. He put anti-apartheid posters in other films (Superman, Scrooged) and the cause was a major plot point of Lethal Weapon 2.
Lots if good cop/buddy movies over the years. The best one recently is 'two guns'. Denzel Washington and Mark Walhberg. City Heat was pretty good also.
To me the parts which never get old are the French taunting king Arthur. In large part it's because Cleese gives it his everything, making it almost a parody of a parody. I've seen the movie so many times, yet the smart dialog keeps it fresh every time. The group was operating within very tight budgetary constraints, and that kind of pressure seems to bring forth their creativity at its best.
Fun fact:the criminal during the early drug deal scene in the red and black flannel jacket is Blackie Dammit whose son is Anthony Keidis the singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
They also did a tv show for three seasons. I was pleasantly surprised by the chemistry between the two leads Damon Wayans as Murtaugh, and Clayne Crawford as Riggs. They had to adjust certain elements since it was an ongoing series instead of a movie, but I thought it was well done. One funny moment in the pilot is that how much they cost the city during one chase was brought up. 😄 The updated it a bit; now Riggs is a former Navy SEAL that served in Iraq.
There was a good buddy cop movie that had Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines, it was called Running Scared. But there is a sci fi buddy cop TV show called Almost Human. It had Karl Urban as the main character and Michael Ealy has is partner as an android.
The fact that Almost Human was cancelled so early is as much of a travesty as not getting a sequel to Dredd. Karl Urban keeps getting disrespected on an epic level.
@@valaport I so agree with you, he is such a great actor. I loved him as Dredd and Dr. "Bones" McCoy. "Almost Human" had so much more of a story to tell. I could go on and on but I won't. His Dredd was so much better than Stallone's by a long shot.
Mel Gibson and Danny Glover characters were Vietnam vets. Now,Mel Gibsons character was ex Special Forces and he was part of Shadow Company.Shadow Company was a real unit and they were ruthless assassins.
They also mentioned Phoenix, which means not only was he a ruthless assassin, but he was specifically tasked to kill innocent men, women and children, cynically in the name of rooting out VC.
@@Hexon66 Kill innocent people...Umm,yep.The Special Forces guys were operating basically independently at that time.The stories about them weren't revealed until years after the war.
And if by some chance you guys have not seen Heat (1995) with Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, I'll be the first to go up a tier on Patreon to watch the full length. Certainly not a buddy cop comedy, but on the Mount Rushmore of crime drama movies.
I can't believe no one has mentioned it. If you two were a buddy cop movie? No contest it's called ... "Get Smart" Buddy secret agent, buddy cop same/same. I knew it the second you said it.🤣
Great movie and great reaction video. if you are thinking of watching another buddy cop film from the 80's you might want to check out "Red Heat " starring everyone's favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jim Belushi cheers
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great buddy cop film is bad boys will smith martin Lawrence please react
" do you think he's qualified for this?", well he's certifiable.......
If you haven't seen 48 Hours with Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy, it is an cop/buddy action film with some light moments from Murphy thrown in.. Give it a try, I think you'll like it. It has a 93% favorable on Rotten Tomatoes.
@@drewg5637 It's a classic.
Only because Your smile 👍
If X-Men was made in the 90s, Mel would have been perfect for Wolverine.
Best Action Comedy Buddy Cop movie ever made!
The Screenplay was written by Shane Black, whom played Hawkins in the PREDATOR movie, where the was writing both Lethal Weapon and The Last Boy Scout.
He also wrote "The Nice Guys", they mentioned in the intro, which is a fantastic film in its own right.
@@Psilocybin77 and Long Kiss Goodnight. One of the best one liner action movies ever
I can't believe my parents let me watch these movies when I was 9 years old. I loved movies as a kid, it was my thing, and we'd spend a lot of time at the old Drive-In theaters. We saw this one at the Drive-In and remains one of my favourite movies of all time. I miss the Drive-In dearly, but at least the movies live on.
I saw the first movie when I was around 8, on our old VHS player. The tape included "Above The Law, Lethal Weapon and The Terminator", but the first Lethal Weapon movie was definitely a favorite for me
Awesome movie made in the most awesome decade, alongside Beverly Hills Cop and Die Hard. They all had the perfect vibe!
Honorable mention here to Gary Busey, very underrated guy. He starred on some of the most cool movies on that period, and later worked with Danny Glover again in Predator 2.
This is a cool and chill reaction channel btw, similar to TBR. You know how to edit properly without cut off key scenes, dont talk too much over the dialogue and not overreact every single moment. All that make the experience very smooth for those who are watching with you.
I tried to watch some of the reactions to the batman, and it just got on my nerve. I tried 4 videos, and just gave up.
This is like the ultimate buddy cops series. The second one is the best, but they are all worth at least one watch.
Yes the second movie was a rare film sequel better than the first film. Not just better bad guys but some of the best bad guys in movie history. "Diplomatic Immunity!" There is amazing twist that changes the first film. it has one of the hottest women in movie history. Joe Pesci should have gotten an Oscar nomination for his part. Way better action scenes. The other 2 movies are just ok.
@@reesebn38 I loved how they connected it to Riggs past. I saw it in the theater when I was twelve, it was awesome!
@@botz77 That twist. The whole audience gasped!
🤜🤛
@@reesebn38 Lethal Weapon 4 was awesome and on par with LW2. Every scene with Jet Li was intense, as was the final fight.
Lethal Weapon is top tier buddy cop, totally legendary status and that sexy sax still slaps. also the Riggs roll is forever badass : D
These movies get better and better, highly recommend going for the whole 4 movie series.
Nah. The third one was kind of “Ehhh”. Order of good 1, 4, 2 and then 3.
@A S Yeah, but it was the introduction of Jet Li that made it awesome. The scene near the end where Murtaw and Riggs discuss having to fight him hand to hand is the best scene. Neither of them want to do it, but they know they have to.
They are all good but they don't get better and better haha.
If you like buddy cop movies, Running Scared (1986) starring Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines is one of the all-time best. It's funny as hell and the leads have great chemistry. If you haven't seen it, you should definitely check it out. You won't regret it.
I love love this movie!! Crystal and Hines became real life best friends and it sure does show they are a joy to watch together.
Hell yes to that. I remember being pleasantly surprised by them and their chemistry.
Great cast - also has Jimmy Smits as the villain
@@gerstelb Also Joe "Joey Pants" Pantoliano as Snake. (He played Cypher in The Matrix, and Ralph Cifaretto in The Sopranos. He's in a lot of other things as well, but those are two of his best-known roles.)
For sure on Running Scared; then Midnight Run with Deniro and Grodin.
All, but one of Shane Black's movies are "Christmas movies." I usually do a marathon of them during the season. Plenty of excellent buddy genre entries.
You guys should watch the entire series. The evolution of the characters over the 4 movies is just SO natural.... and #4 wraps the story up perfectly.
I heard a 5th is in the works. Not sure how I feel about that.
The "Buddy cop" genre is kind of a misnomer, it should be called "buddy action movies" because almost as often as not, they're not cops. "48 Hours" is considered the archetype that kicked it off, and it's about a cop and a convict. A lot of the time, it's a private detective and some other loser ("The Last Boy Scout" "Midnight Run" "The Nice Guys" "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang") or sometimes they go out of the box like a private detective and an amnesiac black-ops assassin ("The Long Kiss Goodnight") or a cop and an assassin-for-hire (The Killer) or a cop and an undead goth guitarist re-animated by a vengeance spirit (The Crow)
And then there are certain action movies where the heroes are buddies and cops but it's not really a buddy-action movie. "Bad Boys" and "Running Scared" are about cops who are buddies who even have an odd-couple dynamic, but buddy movies are about characters who wouldn't normally work together being forced to (at least in the first installment if it becomes a franchise). The detectives in these movies start out at the beginning like they're already an old married couple rather than the "two-roosters-in-the-henhouse" alpha males, butting heads.
Note that four of the nine movies I just mentioned are Shane Black
@@tempsitch5632 The Crow may indeed be one-of-a-kind (as the continued failed attempts at sequels and reboots seem to prove) but he's certainly not the only undead hero to trade quips with a partner while fighting crime. There was RIPD where they were both undead but that movie bombed into obscurity. There was also a low budget cult movie from 1988 called "Dead Heat" where Treat Williams and Joe Piscicpo are detectives and Treat Williams becomes a zombie that somehow keeps his intellect. And then John Landis made a movie called "Innocent Blood" with Anne Paurilaud from "La Femme Nikita" about a detective teaming up with a vigilante vampire who only feeds from criminals.
Great film. Wish they’d do an HD restoration of the extended cut. The schoolyard shooter scene is incredible.
@@lw3918
Meh sometimes they’re good. The Gladiator extended cut is great. The Robin Hood extended cut isn’t. The Terminator 2 extended cut is easily better than the theatrical cut. The Shining extended cut is unnecessarily long. So, you know, it depends.
I think Gibson and Glover have probably the greatest chemistry two performers have ever had in these movies. There is definitely a dip in quality, but for me all of the films get by purely on how magically they work together. I also love how, without spoiling anything, the character's arcs evolve perfectly and logically throughout the series, even to the detriment of the action. And, to further emphasise their being polar opposites, even their initials are reflections of each other (MR and RM)!
I know he went crazy, but Mel Gibson was one of the greatest actors of all time.
Filmmakers too
Great reaction! Hilarious and awesome that Sarah loves buddy cop movies. Can't wait for Lethal Weapon 2! I'm never too old for this sh*t!
I highly, highly recommend checking out the next three films, all of them are excellent and the character growth throughout the series is amazing
Mel Gibson recently announced that they're making a fifth movie pretty excited
They aren't characters, they're FAMILY.
@@dr.burtgummerfan439 couldn't have put it better myself
The fourth one is crap. I don't even consider it a Lethal Weapon film, but just a generic action flick under the Lethal Weapon name.
@@prltqdf9 thats an unpopular hot take!
Shane Black had written some of the action Sequences for PREDATOR, but remained uncredited.
He wrote and directed Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Iron Man 3, The Nice Guys, and The Predator.
He wrote Lethal Weapon 2, The Last Boy Scouts, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Last Action Hero, The Monster Squad, uncredited rewrites on RoboCop 3, Dead Heat, and The Hunt For Red October.
His only unproduced Screenplay was John Carpenter's Shadow Company, which was a cross between "Rambo meets The Exorcist," where undead soldiers from Vietnam come back from beyond the grave to wreak a horrible vengeance against those that betrayed the war.
Hi guys! Just found your channel. Great reaction to a classic movie. All of the Lethal Weapon movies are awesome. I would definitely recommend them. Looking forward to more reactions!
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@@EricSarahReact Check out Directors cut he takes down a sniper
Lethal weapon 2 rocks
The Lethal Weapon series is a great set of movies. Mel Gibson and Danny Glover are great together. Another Mel Gibson movie that’s good is Air America.
@@tempsitch5632
Bird on a Wire is another one that’s weirdly forgotten now. Him and Goldie Hawn are great fun.
This movie is why I introduce myself as Mr. Joshua when I work drove thru
*Please react to the rest of the franchise, you will never get a better chemistry between the actors/characters in film history. btw the term "family" is used rightfully in all four movies, not in the cheesy way fast& furious does*
Funny you mentioned UFC fight at the end. Rorian Gracie of the infamous/famous Gracie family, co-creator of the UFC, was the fight choreographer for this movie. And as you can see at the end, Riggs goes from the arm-lock to the triangle-choke. The movie came out 6 years before the UFC debuted.
Yea when I saw that I was like holy ish did he just do....😂
Danny Glover was actually 40 years old when he shot this film!
The next 2 sequels are defintiely worth a watch/reaction, but also (semi related): The Last Boy Scout (same writer), Maverick (with Mel Gibson)
Anyone with an affection for these types of flicks owes it to themselves to check out the Ruthless Guide to 80s Action. EVERY 80s action movie is in there.
Legendary film Thanks for reviewing.
Lethal Weapon is one of the movies that helped create the Buddy Cop genre. You should watch 48 Hours with Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte. It might be the first real Buddy Cop* film.
Eddie Murphy wasn't a cop in that.
@@jamesanderson6373 Hence the asterisk not to spoil the set up.
Gotcha
To correct you, Rush Hour is actually towards the end of the Buddy Cop Genre. It was huge in the 80s and late 70s. Aside from lethal weapon you got 48hrs,Beverly Hills cop,Tango and cash,turner& hooch,bad boys, showtime, Also plenty of shows
Fun Fact: The guy in red plaid who has a gun to Riggs' neck in the Christmas tree lot is the real life father of RHCP singer Anthony Kiedis.
Enjoying your reactions.
You should give Tango and Cash a watch.
Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell.
Very funny.👍
Love Tango & Cash! That would be a great film for Sarah to see!
- Eric
Lol I just commented that after watching the vid right there!
I looked up Traci Wolfe, the actress who played the pretty teenage daughter of Murtaugh. I was shocked to discover that she is 63 years of age, which would make her 27 on the release of Lethal Weapon!
Hollywood, home of the oldest teenagers in the world. 😁
Great series! Looking forward to you guys reacting to the rest. This is one of those franchises that, in many ways, not only stays equally good, but in certain ways gets deeper as it goes. For example, my personal favorite is LW3.
This was like the film that kicked off the buddy cop flick craze that's been going for a long while now.
6:35 - Still one of the best scenes in an action movie ever. Really gives Mel Gibsons character depth and didn't shy away from showing the seriousness of it. I wish movies nowadays would be this genuine and honest in showing those things.
The original "Buddy Movie" was the 1968 movie, "Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid." (Talk about classic "Banter" between two "anti-heroes"!!!
Shane black wrote THE NICE GUYS also.
Lethal weapon is the first buddy cop movie that shane black wrote
This probably has some of the best (modern style) music of any film series (except the end credit song for the first movie). Score by Michael Kamen with Eric Clapton on guitar and Dave Sanborn on sax, with credit songs by George Harrison on 2, and Sting and Elton John on 3.
Michael Kamen kind of stole from himself - he used the same note sequence in the “Riggs and Roger” theme that he used in the main theme for the movie The Dead Zone (also an excellent flick - a Stephen King adaptation with Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, and Tom Skerritt).
To use the vernacular, 80s action movies went "Balls to the wall" and that's why its awesome !
My favourite movie. Always watch it around xmas time, another gem from the 80s.
This was an awesome reaction! I think I'm going to love this channel. 😎
Nice one. One of my favourites. I think there was just over a year between the releases of Lethal Weapon, The Untouchables and Die Hard. Yes, we were spoilt!
Now, are you going to do Lethal Weapon 2? It’s a worthy sequel. 👍
Great reaction. Please watch Glengarry Glen Ross next. It has a star studded cast and every performance is great.
It was fun in the day. it was the summer movie. A good year and people were all enjoying life outside screens.
Not seen a review/reaction from the younger bit to this movie before. Well done. Thanks for not making us look too silly.
Can't have Christmas without Lethal Weapon and Die Hard.
48 Hours is a good one for early 80's buddy cop style . Not cop buddy's but buddy's eventually 🤘
This is a great film, until the last 10-15mins, they have never felt right to me. They knew he was coming, they emptied the house and left the two cops outside knowing how dangerous he was. These two cops were sacrificed so that Riggs could have a fist fight with him. It feels like the writer lost his way in the last act, like he wanted the one on one fight, and couldn't come up with a sensible way to get there, probably because the film was only to be a single throw away buddy cop film until it did really well in the box office.
HEY! If you like "Buddy Cop" movies, I have a REALLY unique one for you! It's called "Alien Nation!" It stars James Caan (from Misery) and Mandy Patinkin (from The Princess Bride). It's a great flick from the 80's and I am SURE you will love it!
great reaction. the sequel is very good as well. another good 80s cop action movie is 48hrs with nick nolte and eddie murphy. worth checking out
Little did we know it was just "Mel" being "Mel."
New subscriber. Glad y’all liked the movie. This is the best buddy copy movie series ever to me. Only thing close is Rush Hour! Enjoy the ride!
At the beginning, I believe the young girl's suic!de's final image is an homage to a famous real suic!de -- the woman was similarly posed, having landed on top of a car, and looking surprisingly peaceful. But the original woman was fully clothed.
Ah, that 80s sax.
there's a movie called Air America starring Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. the Op was mentioned in Lethal Weapon and its about running drugs and weapons in Vietnam. its a very good movie with lots of action and comedy.
also, you should watch Maverick starring Gibson and James Garner. Glover does make a cameo in this movie as well. its also an action packed comedy drama worth a movie night. Garner played the original Maverick in the tv series from 1957-62
27:53 - You may have missed the anti-apartheid poster in the Murtaugh house. This is a pet cause of director Richard Donner's. He put anti-apartheid posters in other films (Superman, Scrooged) and the cause was a major plot point of Lethal Weapon 2.
The fight between Jashua and Riggs was choreographed by Rorion Gracie, founder of the UFC.
“Is she evil?”
My gut reaction, “No, she’s lost.”
Lots if good cop/buddy movies over the years. The best one recently is 'two guns'. Denzel Washington and Mark Walhberg. City Heat was pretty good also.
Another great buddy cop film is Tango & Cash. Lots of great one-liners. I highly suggest it.
Great movie that still holds together incredibly to this day. 2 & 3 are excellent also.
Buddy cop series, this is definitely the best.
But, stand alone buddy cop movie has to be Tango and Cash
To me the parts which never get old are the French taunting king Arthur. In large part it's because Cleese gives it his everything, making it almost a parody of a parody.
I've seen the movie so many times, yet the smart dialog keeps it fresh every time. The group was operating within very tight budgetary constraints, and that kind of pressure seems to bring forth their creativity at its best.
you must finish out this series...but also do the beverly hills cop series as well
We watch this almost every Christmas.
The Other Guys is good modernish take on the buddy cop flick.
Part 2 is the best one
You gotta check the other 3 out! They're worth the watch
Fun fact:the criminal during the early drug deal scene in the red and black flannel jacket is Blackie Dammit whose son is Anthony Keidis the singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
10:24 a prettay prettay pretty big ask
Great job guys!👍👍
They also did a tv show for three seasons. I was pleasantly surprised by the chemistry between the two leads Damon Wayans as Murtaugh, and Clayne Crawford as Riggs. They had to adjust certain elements since it was an ongoing series instead of a movie, but I thought it was well done. One funny moment in the pilot is that how much they cost the city during one chase was brought up. 😄
The updated it a bit; now Riggs is a former Navy SEAL that served in Iraq.
For 2 offbeat buddy cop movies - Alien Nation, with James Caan and Mandy Patinkin, and Supercop (Police Story 3), with Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh.
There was a good buddy cop movie that had Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines, it was called Running Scared. But there is a sci fi buddy cop TV show called Almost Human. It had Karl Urban as the main character and Michael Ealy has is partner as an android.
The fact that Almost Human was cancelled so early is as much of a travesty as not getting a sequel to Dredd. Karl Urban keeps getting disrespected on an epic level.
@@valaport I so agree with you, he is such a great actor. I loved him as Dredd and Dr. "Bones" McCoy. "Almost Human" had so much more of a story to tell. I could go on and on but I won't. His Dredd was so much better than Stallone's by a long shot.
Can't wait to see you guys watch lethal weapon 2-4
Mel Gibson and Danny Glover characters were Vietnam vets. Now,Mel Gibsons character was ex Special Forces and he was part of Shadow Company.Shadow Company was a real unit and they were ruthless assassins.
They also mentioned Phoenix, which means not only was he a ruthless assassin, but he was specifically tasked to kill innocent men, women and children, cynically in the name of rooting out VC.
@@Hexon66 Kill innocent people...Umm,yep.The Special Forces guys were operating basically independently at that time.The stories about them weren't revealed until years after the war.
love you guys xx
Subscribed for the next Lethal Weapon reaction!!!
I think if you two were in any buddy movie, it would be more like SHEAN OF THE DEAD. I could totally see you guys there.
Great Reaction Guy's
You guys did a good job
I recommend running scared, a great buddy cop film
And if by some chance you guys have not seen Heat (1995) with Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, I'll be the first to go up a tier on Patreon to watch the full length. Certainly not a buddy cop comedy, but on the Mount Rushmore of crime drama movies.
You guy's fire off more comments quicker than Mel Gibson's Baretta.
Lots of sax and violence in this one. Good review!
Great Reaction as usual! Do American Psycho, a classic sigma movie 😎
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now lets see paul allen's reaction video
@@maromba_cuts 😂
gotta return some videotapes 😠
@@maromba_cuts "now lets see paul allen's reaction video" (shaking and sweating)
I can't believe no one has mentioned it. If you two were a buddy cop movie?
No contest it's called ... "Get Smart"
Buddy secret agent, buddy cop same/same. I knew it the second you said it.🤣
Great movie and great reaction video. if you are thinking of watching another buddy cop film from the 80's you might want to check out "Red Heat " starring everyone's favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jim Belushi cheers
If you're into Christmas movies, then you should try Die Hard. Young-ish Bruce Willis and Snape's first big part. What more could you want?
Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😁
41 and you are a "old man" ?
Damn when i will reach my 60 i would be an ancient mummy relic at this point.
People always bring up product placement but I would rather see real products in movies than fake ones.
Great movie I actually think lethal weapon 2 is even better. Just my opinion.
Midnight Run is a great odd couple drama/comedy.
Next 3 Lethal Weapon movies are definitely worth watching. Parts 2 and 4 are my favorite.
This movie is partially full of cliches because a thousand other movies copied the formula. It seemed A bit more unique back then.
The chief rejected the psycologiest because leaving ricks out of the street woukd have mean a death sentence for ricks.
Hey you guys. I like your reaction style. How about check out "Midnight Run" with Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin. I think you'd really like it.
Classic movie
32:27 Not too old to cash them checks