Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)

Murtaugh is still the family man. Riggs is still the daredevil, but now he counts the odds before bucking them. This time, they must protect an accountant who has laundered a half billion dollars in narcotics money. He leads them to a murderous syndicate with ties to a foreign power. Along the way, there's a six-story plummet from a window, a booby-trapped toilet, an underwater escape, and more. Academy Award Nominations: Best Sound Effects Editing.

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Lethal Weapon 2 re-teams Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as, respectively, "loose cannon" L.A. detective Martin Riggs and his partner, the cautious family man Roger Murtaugh. The villain this time is a South African diplomat (Joss Ackland) who doubles as a drug dealer. Though Riggs knows what's going on thanks to characterless character witness Joe Pesci, he can't touch the villain because of "diplomatic immunity." After perils too numerous to mention, Riggs and Murtaugh shoot it out with the heavies on the deck of a South African cargo ship. Lethal Weapon 2, of course, contains as one of its comic high-points a now...
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famous suspense scene: Mel Gibson agonizingly attempting to extricate a terrified Danny Glover from a booby-trapped toilet seat. Director Richard Donner, Gibson, Glover, and Joe Pesci would be reunited three years later for Lethal Weapon 3 and in 1998 for Lethal Weapon 4.
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De politiemannen Martin Riggs (Gibson) en Roger Murtaugh (Glover) zijn terug. Deze keer komen ze in aanraking met een Afrikaanse diplomaat die gebruik maakt van zijn diplomatieke onschendbaarheid om zijn criminele activiteiten ongestraft te kunnen uitvoeren. De irritante Leo Getz (Pesci) is de enige getuige die Riggs en Murtaugh hebben, maar de vraag is of ze hem zelf niet eerst zullen vermoorden voordat hij kan getuigen.

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