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After a quick action sequence and a bit of exposition, the meat of the movie begins with Los Angeles Police Department vets Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) horsing around on Murtaugh's boat with their Leodmouth near-friend Leo Getz (Joe Pesci). Not 10 seconds after Riggs lobs Leo's pistol into the waves in jest, a massive freighter narrowly misses the puny fishing boat. Murtaugh and Riggs lose no time; a speedy flash of badge (very impressive from a distance, no doubt), leads the two cops, with minimal aid from Leo, to a shootout that...
...photogenic violence is a legacy of earlier Lethal Weapon's, albeit not the only one. Leo is a retainer from the second, Riggs' girlfriend Lorna (Rene Russo) from Lethal Weapon 3, and the partners' past actions color every scene at LAPD head quarters. But never does the movie rest on the laurels of its predecessors. Many jokes are funny for the uninitiated even as they take on added resonance for those who have followed Riggs and Murtaugh through the years, and no jokes exclude those who are not die-hard fans. Old characters and running gags are neatly integrated into...
...Leo Campbell, 50, manager of electronic commerce with the U.S. Postal Service in Washington, readily saw the need for a quick update in his field. He took a one-week, $5,000 course in managing technology and strategic innovation at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. "What I learned keeps me and my group at the Postal Service on the cutting edge of technology and customer innovation," Campbell says. "Who would have thought a few years ago that people like me would be sitting in a class swapping Internet war stories...
...Pesci works his scuzzy Leo Getz character hard to take up the slack, but he's oldish news by now--and so are the film's action sequences, all frantic variations by director Richard Donner on gags we've seen before. New news Chris Rock works harder than anyone else trying to get laughs as a young detective helping the old pros pursue a gang that's smuggling illegal aliens into the country, but he's caught red-handed trying to steal the picture. Get some sneakers, kid. And try whispering...
Look out, Leo: Prince William wants to be king. While Leonardo DiCaprio, America's most squealed-at name (and New York's most written-about club-hopper) once again topped the list of Pathfinder.com's most searched-for last week, Britannia's young lion -- on the strength of his Sweet Sixteen -- climbed the charts to a very close second...