Lethal Weapon 3
Short description
Lethal Weapon 3 returns Los Angeles detectives Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh, whose recklessness on a bomb call gets them demoted to patrol duty. They keep working the case anyway, following a trail of confiscated weapons and ammunition that are being stolen from police storage and sold to street gangs. The man behind the operation is a former officer who knows how the department works and uses that knowledge to stay ahead of them. An internal affairs officer, Lorna Cole, joins the pair, and the con man Leo Getz also becomes involved.
Richard Donner directed, working from a screenplay by Robert Mark Kamen and Jeffrey Boam, with Donner and Joel Silver producing. It is the ninth of the eighteen films Donner directed in chronological order, following Lethal Weapon 2 in 1989 and preceding Radio Flyer the same year. Mel Gibson and Danny Glover again play the leads, with Joe Pesci, Rene Russo as Lorna Cole, Stuart Wilson and Steve Kahan among the credited cast of 67, supported by 121 credited crew.
Made for 35 million USD, the film took 322 million USD worldwide, a large return on its budget. On IMDb it holds 6.7/10 from 188,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.7/10 from 3,371 votes. A critics' rating of 5.8/10 from 49 reviews places it below both audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Joel Silver paid $165,000 for a permit to demolish the building.
- Riggs (Mel Gibson) eats dog biscuits in order to quit smoking. In "Mad Max 2" (1981), the character played by Mel eats dog food to survive.
- Bill Frederick, the mayor of Orlando, played a police officer who says "Bravo!" to Murtaugh and Riggs after the building explosion.
- The building that Riggs and Murtaugh accidentally blow up actually explodes. It is the Orlando City Hall, which was slated for demolition. Demolition experts blew up the building, and the film crew captured the process in detail from multiple angles. Gibson and Glover genuinely ran from the real explosion, without any stunt doubles. Later, participants in all four films would call this explosion the best of all those they had to film.
- Carrie Fisher polished the script, but her name isn't mentioned in the credits.
- During the chase after the armored car, Delores exclaims that it is the "Warrior of the Road." The American title of "Mad Max 2" (1981), starring Mel Gibson, is "The Road Warrior".
- Number of deaths: 17.
- Due to the film's box office success, Warner Brothers gifted Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Joel Silver, Richard Donner, and Jeffrey Bowm each with a new Range Rover.
- This is the only film in this film series where the villains did not threaten the Murtaugh family.
- Please watch the end credits until the very end, as there is a short scene after them.
- Murtaugh’s boat is called “Code 7”, which is the Los Angeles Police Department’s code for a lunch break.
- During the scene where Riggs and Lorna compare scars, many of Riggs’ scars relate to events in “Lethal Weapon 2” (1989), specifically the scar from a gunshot wound to the lung and the scar from a knife wound to the leg.
- The director's cut of the film has a runtime of 121 minutes.
- Filming took place from October 2, 1991, to January 29, 1992.
- When the building explodes at the beginning of the film, the roar heard by the audience was also used in "King Kong" (1976).
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