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Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)

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Average Rating: 5/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 6

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Superstars Mel Gibson and Danny Glover return with director Richard Donner for Lethal Weapon 3, the third in the phenomenally successful action series. In this film, Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) is only eight days away from retirement and his partner, Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson), once again manages to get them both into hot water with both the LAPD and the bad guys, who this time are Jack Travis (Stuart Wilson) and a gang of hoodlums selling armor-piercing bullets. Joe Pesci returns as the

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Dec 16, 1997

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Critic Reviews for Lethal Weapon 3

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A cheerfully amoral movie that cannily caters to and satirizes our passion for cinematic violence.

August 25, 2008 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine
TIME Magazine
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Manages to be highly entertaining and sanctions all its violence by making the bad guys so despicable that death seems to be the only solution.

June 5, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety
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What this sequel delivers is still the kind of high-speed roller-coaster action that producer Joel Silver's films often do so well.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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The movie isn't going anywhere, but it goes in circles at top speed.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times
Vincent Canby
New York Times
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Mediocrity wielded by experts.

May 12, 2001
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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They know what they're doing and how to do it, but we miss the sense of invention that brightened the earlier movies.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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Lethal Weapon 3 is inexcusable crap, but it's sort of intriguing inexcusable crap.

August 12, 2012 Full Review Source: Film Freak Central
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central

The franchise is back to its middling ways with Lethal Weapon 3, a sporadically entertaining entry.

June 14, 2012 Full Review Source: Creative Loafing
Matt Brunson
Creative Loafing

Violent action sequel on par with rest of series.

January 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Elliot Panek
Common Sense Media

Slick, predictable fun.

August 25, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4
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More of the same, but it's now so far removed from any sense of reality, and done with such ham-fisted insistence, it's become a clumsy parody of itself.

August 25, 2008 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide
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Action packed, violent, and funny Gibson/Glover franchise entry.

May 9, 2007
Steve Crum
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A lethal dose of action, thrills, and comedy.

December 26, 2006 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

Aside from one good car chase, the weakest entry in the series.

June 23, 2005 | Comment (1)
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

One of the best series in the genre.

July 21, 2004
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals

Lethal Weapon 3, although the worst of all four movies, is satisfying enough not only for fans of the franchise.

March 9, 2004 Full Review
Dragan Antulov
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Third entry in the Lethal Weapon franchise is a film with mixed results. I really have mixed opinions on the series, and personally, I thought the first was the best one. The first entry was the most exciting, most thrilling, and best written film in the entire series. Obviously sequels followed, and they all had the daunting task of outdoing the original, or predecessor. Lethal Weapon 3 is the second sequel to Lethal Weapon, and it's entertaining, but smething about this film bugs me. Like I said, I never really was that big a fan of these films, and preferred the first. I was more a Die Hard fan. The premise of this story is cool and Mel Gibson plays a cool, mean spirited tough cop. But there's just something about this film that just doesn't cut it for me. I really didn't like Joe Pesci in this film, and I thought he was irritating as hell, I consider his character to be the Jar Jar Binks of the Lethal Weapons. Lethal Weapon 3 nearly succeeds at being a passable sequel for me, but doesn't quite make it. thought the film could have been better, and with the interesting plot, Lethal Weapon 3 could have been a splendid film. But if Richard Donner would've selected his cast more closely, NOT write a part for Joe Pesci, this film would have been better. Entertaining, but not as good as I'd hope it would be.
July 13, 2011
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Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

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The third part of Richard Donner's cop buddy series is the silliest. It puts a lot more emphasis on humor, but once again offers plenty of violence and ruthless villains. While the plot is merely a variation of the former two films it works mostly thanks to the great chemistry between Gibson and Glover. With plenty of laughs, gunfights and car chases not much can go wrong, after all.
June 13, 2006
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Jens S.

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