Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14324 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-06-01
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Arabic, Romanian, Bulgarian
• Dubbed in: Italian
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 105 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Mel Gibson set aside his art-house credentials to star as a crazy cop paired with a stable one (Danny Glover) in this full-blown 1987 Richard Donner action picture. The most violent film in the series (which includes three sequels), Lethal Weapon is also the edgiest and most interesting. After Gibson's character jumps off a building handcuffed to a man, and Gary Busey (as a cold, efficient enforcer) lets his hand get burned without flinching, there is a sense that anything can happen, and it usually does. Donner's strangely messy visual and audio style doesn't make a lot of aesthetic sense, but it stuck with all four movies. --Tom Keogh

Special Features
1.85 Wide Screen
French\Italian
English\Italian
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English French Italian
Dolby Digital 5.1
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Arabic\Bulgarian\Dutch\English\French\German\Italian\Portuguese\Romanian\Spanish

Synopsis
In Richard Donner's thrilling blockbuster, two tough Los Angeles cops--suicidal Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) and family man Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover)--are teamed as partners in a highly unusual case involving a massive international crime ring which has its roots in Vietnam--a place they're both all too familiar with. This film, with its fresh, energetic combination of comedy, drama, and action, managed to spurn three highly successful sequels.

Customer Reviews

brilliant
lethal weapon is a 1987 cop buddy movie that blended in the over zealous blood kill that incorporated the 80s in the action movie genre,mel gibson and danny glover play riggs and murtaugh,two cops who come from different backgrounds,lead very different lives and treat their sense of living differently as gibson is more gung ho who has a death wish since his wife was killed due to him being a cop,glover is a family man,getting on in age who prides himself on playing it safe.
The two cops have to learn to work with eack other,like each other amd then respect each other all the while fighting evil and trying to uncover a murder plot,the film is witty and intense and violent and thats what we love.

solid action
Leathal Weapon is the kind of great action movie that were made in the 80's that just isn't made anymore. The tension between the two leads give the film an edge lacking in most contempary action movies. The slow retiring Danny Glover and the half crazy Mel Gibson play off each other perfectly creating great action and laughs at every turn.

Mel Gibsons caricture is literaly a Leathal Weapon who (we are informed) could crack at any minete. A psycotic Vietnam Vet' he is a man who does not care if he is alive or dead so throws himself into more and more dangerous situations without fear of the consequences. He will go to almost any leanths to catch a theif almost taunting them to kill him. In stark contrast the caricture played by Danny Glover is only days from retirement so is eager to stay out of trouble. The resulting tensions add extra spice to what could have been a bog standard action flick, as Mel Gibsons caricture pushes ever closer to suicide and insanity.

This is good solid action filmmaking, of a kind that Hollywood should be proud and indeed make more of. If you like action films you'll like Leathal Weapon. When you watch it you'll wonder why they can't make action films as good as they did in the eighties.

Amazing
Without a doubt, Mel Gibbon's finest hour, and Glover's as well. Ground breaking performances from the two leaders. Is Roger Murtaugh 'too old for this s***', i don't think so.