To me, this movie is perfection.

Sorry, this movie sucks

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) pursue an arms dealer who is a former LAPD officer (Stuart Wilson).I love that Joe Pesci is a bit more lively in this one. He seemed subdued in part two. Can't wait to see him in part four, though he will probably be overshadowed by the massive cast.Director Richard Donner is an animal-rights and pro-choice activist, and placed many posters and stickers for these causes in the film. Of note are the T-shirt worn by one of Murtaugh's daughters (the actress's idea), an 18-wheeler with an anti-fur slogan on the side, and a sticker on a locker in the police station. Was this necessary? I don't know. I thought the t-shirt seemed strange, and somehow balanced funny with the condom ad...

Disclaimer: If you are a viewer that mainly prefers art-house-type movies, then you might as well ignore this review. In addition, if you're not able to take a buddy cop action movie the third sequel in the "Lethal Weapon" series, ignore this review, as well. We'll both be better off.Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) is for my opinion the second best in the series! I love this flick, I always have enjoyed much more than I did Lethal Weapon 2. I love this sequel, I think is so much better than Lethal Weapon 2! Because the second installment in the series was way too violent movie from the first one, this one was just fun action sequel to the first one and I love it so much! I thought Donner kept the level going for the most part throughout the films!!! Why don't people like the last two movies!! I pretty stayed up half the night for two nights in a row because I got so hooked with these movies!. I especially love Rene Russo she's so sexy, sassy, and kicks a lot of ass in it. A nice addition to the team. Rene Russo in this movie she was the second crush I had on her. She was the most beautiful girl playing a tough cop ever. I was happy her character was not killed off, by the end of the movie. When the film ended I was really sad because I didn't know what happened too Martin Riggs and Lorna Cole, did their romance lasted forever. I was always hooked up and when I hared they are making Lethal Weapon 4 in 1998, I couldn't wait for the fourth installment! I grew up with this movie and it is my childhood movie of all time I love it to death!!!Rock on Riggs and Murtaugh! Perhaps as a reflection of that, "Weapon 3" depends more on chases, explosions and set pieces than it does on character development. The story again involves the partnership of Riggs and Murtaugh (Gibson and Glover), buddies in the long tradition of movie cop partners. This time Murtaugh is only eight days from retirement, a sure sign in any cop movie that his life will be repeatedly in danger. I remember Lethal Weapon 3 was a lot of fun and I would say it's my 2nd favorite of the series. Stuart Wilson was a good bad guy, humor was great including the banter. It's an entertaining sequel. I know a lot of people don't like this movie like I do a lot of fans prefer Lethal Weapon 2 over this flick, I don't! I think 1 and 3 are great flicks, 2 is my third favorite film in the franchise!!! Part 1 and 3 of Lethal Weapon I absolutely love! I enjoyed Lethal Weapon 2, I like Lethal Weapon 4. I really love Lethal Weapon 3, I always had fun with it. I highly enjoy it. I don't mind the story, a lot of people complain about the story. I think that story is very interesting. I think Joe Pesci has more screen time in this movie than in part 2. I love when Riggs cut the wrong wire in the opening scene and the whole Building Explodes. They both grabbed the cat and they save the cat ha ha. Than they went on patrol officer now, not anymore detectives. This movie is fun back and forth. The armored car is driven by this crooks and Riggs is chasing it. Riggs eventually has to brake the vehicle hard, causing the armored car to come to a sudden stop, resulting in the bad guy flying through the windshield and coming to rest on the hood and say my favorite line. "You have the right to remain unconscious. Anything you say ain't gonna be much." And Riggs punches the guy in the windshield and says "Back to bed. Back to bed." The car chase scene Riggs jumps off the subway and commandeers an LAPD motorcycle, then continues his pursuit of the truck, which has by then left the rails and taken to the streets. Riggs pursues Travis on the wrong side of a freeway, then into a section that was under construction. Travis manages to get stopped, but Riggs flies off an unfinished ramp, getting hung up by some cables. The cables give way, and he falls through several platforms, to the ground. This scene is Excellent and outstanding stunt, I can always watch that! The scene in the hockey arena is one of my favorite when Leo (Joe Pesci) wrestles with Jack Travis (Staurt Wilson) Their struggle carries them onto the ice and Travis shoots Leo in the arm. Riggs follows Travis out of the arena, but loses him. That scene Riggis running on the ice was fantastic. The end fight scene when Murtaugh takes out Walters, then tosses Darryl's gun to Riggs, loaded with the cop killer bullets. Riggs shoots through the bucket of the front-end loader, killing Travis was awesome! This movie is awesome and it is my favorite film in the "Lethal Weapon" series. It is a 10 for me. Lethal Weapon 3 is the third installment in the Lethal Weapon film franchise. The 1992 action sequel has Detective Sergeants Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) under the eye of an Internal Affairs detective (Rene Russo) during an investigation of a former cop who is dealing in illegal arms and armor-piercing ammunition. The film also stars Joe Pesci and Stuart Wilson. 10/10 Grade: Bad Ass Seal Of Approval Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures, Silver Pictures Starring: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Stuart Wilson Director: Richard Donner Producers: Richard Donner, Joel Silver Screenplay: Jeffrey Boam, Robert Mark Kamen Story: Jeffrey Boam Rated: R Running Time: 1 Hr. 58 Mins. Budget: $35.000.000 Box Office: $321,731,527

Lethal Weapon 3 is a fairly average movie. I have seen it a few times and it might have been funny the first time, but it came out very average the next few times. I vaguely remember promising to lend it to my sister, well she can keep it for all I care because it is not one of those movies that I really desire to have in my collection.The story is simple. An ex-cop, Jack Travis, is stealing weapons and ammunition from police store houses and selling them. Myrtal (Danny Glover) kills a friend of his son when while being shot at, and armour piercing ammo is on the streets. There is little in the way of holding the story together and it seems that it is just endless action without a strong story. Pursuing Jack Travis does take a major part of the movie, but that major part does not make a smooth plot. Rather it seems to me more of an excuse to have numerous action scenes in differing styles.One of the more subtle ideas in the movie is the re-emergence of the macho man over the strong woman. Lorna Cole (Rene Ruso) is an internal affairs agent who is tough and happens to run across Sergant Riggs (Mel Gibson) and the movie falls into a struggle between Riggs and Cole. There is the subtle desire within Riggs character that being the male he must always be dominant over the female, and this is seen in the scene where he brings Cole into the male toilets to talk. This idea of male dominance comes out even more in the scene where they are comparing scars. The whole concept evolves around the desire for the male to emerge once again as the dominant sex while the female sex is fighting to take that role. In the end the female is not forced back into the role of the house-wife, but rather as the man's servant. She is welcome to take on stronger roles as long as the man is always superior.I cannot remember the first two Lethal Weapons but I find that Lethal Weapon 3 is quite average and only worth a side comment.

Slowly but surely, reasons to be enthusiastic about the Lethal Weapon series are being eroded away. Where once there was substance there is now nothing but chase and second unit material; where once there was a sense of character, now there is a series of sequences which would once open a James Bond film before giving way to narrative and espionage although now prop up meagre action/adventure flicks. If we liked the first Lethal Weapon, then we liked it for its depiction of a man with a reason to live stuck in a profession that often saw him close to death getting lumped with a fellow cop who felt he HAD no reason to live. It was quite funny, often even touching, and made with a correct ethic that saw it know when to have fun and when the second unit stuff wasn't the primary focus. Lethal Weapon 3 teams these two up for more excitement and adventure, excitement and adventure which is no longer exciting and hasn't really got anything fresh in it to have it feel like it's much of an adventure.We've been down the route of crooked cops; African American gun crime and good looking Internal Affairs agents enough times to know the drill by now, and yet at its heart is that twosome of Martin Riggs (Gibson) and Roger Murtaugh (Glover) - that indelible combination which works so much more than it has any right to. Be angry at the film if you must, but reserve a place in your good books for this duo of L.A.P.D. Sergeants, two guys who get the job done in 'book' fashion if 'book' fashion is defined as to jot down exactly what you're about to do as you charge to the crime scene in your police cruiser. They're not hardened enough to be Eastwood's Callaghan, but they are hardened enough not to resemble Jacques Clouseau. Here, we welcome them into their latest escapade via a bomb threat – back when domestic terrorism in the United States could still be treated as if one, big joke in the year's biggest action movie.Their clashing natures are established through how either of them figure one should go about dealing with such a thing, an explosive device located in the ground floor car park of an office building. Riggs, being who he is, decides to charge in ahead of the bomb squad – something which results in the whole structure coming down and both men demoted. The problem here, of course, is with Riggs' behaviour. In the first film, doing what he does here was fine, since he was suicidal; a risk taker, a gambler – he wanted to die on the job because he didn't have the guts to kill himself. Following the culmination of the first film, with Riggs essentially becoming 'cured' of his grief and suicidal thoughts, he shouldn't be attempting these zany ideas at police work. Then there is Murtaugh: a black, suited individual to Riggs' scrawnier white fella'; a man who is STILL on the brink of retirement and is on even thinner ice than before in regards to his family who're nervous that he's been busted down to street work in the uniform on the street of L.A. It is, however, whilst on this street patrol that they uncover what will become their latest assignment.The narrative here involves another ex-cop dun-wrong, a man named Jack Travis (Wilson) who's gone rouge and made a fortune out of selling weapons formerly belonging to that of the police force to street thugs who're itching to get their hands on one. Travis works under a façade of housing development construction, something really handy when the time comes to rid his enterprise of someone who lets him down when one spots that small stretch of inconspicuous ground used to funnel the cement out of the truck mixer. While the goals of both Travis and Gary Busey's villain from the first film are similar, Travis is a bad guy cut more from 'stock' than one would have liked and doesn't carry the effective threat really required.As was with the last film, a piece weaving into its proceedings the item of Apartheid rule in South Africa that was still prominent at the time, some sort of strand on African American gun crime, and how easy it is for youngsters of this ilk to fall into such a thing, is present in the narrative. Unfortunately, it is done so with a sense of uneasy grace more so caressed into the story with a consummate hand. Both films want you to leave the piece with a newfound sense of awareness on a topic, but the weight of this latter issue is as such out of its clumsy presence than its deep, affective and residing poise. Again, the decision to essentially put these two characters up against such a thing (in the form of someone instigating this gun crime) is too easy and clutters the film where a different director not looking to pull such obvious sociological punches with this premise might've made better. The film is too easy; too slick for its own good, there's an oiled arrogance to it which is never omnipresent enough for it to be truly agitating, but it's enough to warrant taking against the film overall. It's undemanding and buoyed by whatever decent second unit material it has, but so was the first entry and that seemed capable of a whole lot more than "3" ever musters up.