I’ve seen all the other “Lethal Weapon” films and while this one isn’t the worst (that has to be “Lethal Weapon 3”) this second outing disappointed me. It lacks the intensity and creativity of the original and becomes nothing more than a rehash. It’s one of those films where everything is something we’ve seen before and it was better before.

In “Lethal Weapon 2”, police officers Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson “Mad Max”, “Mad Max 2”) and Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover “Predator 2”, “Be Kind Rewind”) discover a group of South African diplomats are using their immunity to engage in criminal activities and because of this the duo become targets as they evade bombs planted on toilets and a devastating helicopter attack so now it’s payback time.

Mel Gibson plays the crazy one but here I just didn’t get that feeling he has in the other films. Danny Glover is good as always as Roger Murtaugh. The two work reasonably well in this one. The villains are decent but I’ve seen other bad guys with power beyond the law. Joe Pesci (“Goodfellas”, “Home Alone”) is irritating and we unfortunately get roughly 10 minutes of screen time with this guy. The other characters are relatively weak.

In “Lethal Weapon 2” Gibson and Glover basically repeat what they did in the first film but here it isn’t done with the same kind of conviction. I thought the death involving a surfboard was creative but everything else felt very clichéd. It’s not as boring as the third movie but it lacks the sophistication of the first and fourth pictures; like the third film the witty script is missing from this one. If you’re a massive fan of the series maybe you’ll enjoy this one but otherwise it’ll do you no harm but it won’t do you any real favours either.