Lethal Weapon (1987) Movie Reaction & Commentary | FIRST TIME WATCHING

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Best Action Comedy Buddy Cop movie ever made! The Screenplay was written by Shane Black, whom played Hawkins in the PREDATOR movie, where the was writing both Lethal Weapon and The Last Boy Scout.

If X-Men was made in the 90s, Mel would have been perfect for Wolverine.

I can't believe my parents let me watch these movies when I was 9 years old. I loved movies as a kid, it was my thing, and we'd spend a lot of time at the old Drive-In theaters. We saw this one at the Drive-In and remains one of my favourite movies of all time. I miss the Drive-In dearly, but at least the movies live on.

If you like buddy cop movies, Running Scared (1986) starring Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines is one of the all-time best. It's funny as hell and the leads have great chemistry. If you haven't seen it, you should definitely check it out. You won't regret it.

Awesome movie made in the most awesome decade, alongside Beverly Hills Cop and Die Hard. They all had the perfect vibe! Honorable mention here to Gary Busey, very underrated guy. He starred on some of the most cool movies on that period, and later worked with Danny Glover again in Predator 2. This is a cool and chill reaction channel btw, similar to TBR. You know how to edit properly without cut off key scenes, dont talk too much over the dialogue and not overreact every single moment. All that make the experience very smooth for those who are watching with you. I tried to watch some of the reactions to the batman, and it just got on my nerve. I tried 4 videos, and just gave up.

Lethal Weapon is top tier buddy cop, totally legendary status and that sexy sax still slaps. also the Riggs roll is forever badass : D

This is like the ultimate buddy cops series. The second one is the best, but they are all worth at least one watch.

The "Buddy cop" genre is kind of a misnomer, it should be called "buddy action movies" because almost as often as not, they're not cops. "48 Hours" is considered the archetype that kicked it off, and it's about a cop and a convict. A lot of the time, it's a private detective and some other loser ("The Last Boy Scout" "Midnight Run" "The Nice Guys" "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang") or sometimes they go out of the box like a private detective and an amnesiac black-ops assassin ("The Long Kiss Goodnight") or a cop and an assassin-for-hire (The Killer) or a cop and an undead goth guitarist re-animated by a vengeance spirit (The Crow) And then there are certain action movies where the heroes are buddies and cops but it's not really a buddy-action movie. "Bad Boys" and "Running Scared" are about cops who are buddies who even have an odd-couple dynamic, but buddy movies are about characters who wouldn't normally work together being forced to (at least in the first installment if it becomes a franchise). The detectives in these movies start out at the beginning like they're already an old married couple rather than the "two-roosters-in-the-henhouse" alpha males, butting heads. Note that four of the nine movies I just mentioned are Shane Black

All, but one of Shane Black's movies are "Christmas movies." I usually do a marathon of them during the season. Plenty of excellent buddy genre entries.

Shane Black had written some of the action Sequences for PREDATOR, but remained uncredited. He wrote and directed Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Iron Man 3, The Nice Guys, and The Predator. He wrote Lethal Weapon 2, The Last Boy Scouts, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Last Action Hero, The Monster Squad, uncredited rewrites on RoboCop 3, Dead Heat, and The Hunt For Red October. His only unproduced Screenplay was John Carpenter's Shadow Company, which was a cross between "Rambo meets The Exorcist," where undead soldiers from Vietnam come back from beyond the grave to wreak a horrible vengeance against those that betrayed the war.

These movies get better and better, highly recommend going for the whole 4 movie series.

You guys should watch the entire series. The evolution of the characters over the 4 movies is just SO natural.... and #4 wraps the story up perfectly.

Lethal weapon 2 rocks

I think Gibson and Glover have probably the greatest chemistry two performers have ever had in these movies. There is definitely a dip in quality, but for me all of the films get by purely on how magically they work together. I also love how, without spoiling anything, the character's arcs evolve perfectly and logically throughout the series, even to the detriment of the action. And, to further emphasise their being polar opposites, even their initials are reflections of each other (MR and RM)!

The next 2 sequels are defintiely worth a watch/reaction, but also (semi related): The Last Boy Scout (same writer), Maverick (with Mel Gibson)

Funny you mentioned UFC fight at the end. Rorian Gracie of the infamous/famous Gracie family, co-creator of the UFC, was the fight choreographer for this movie. And as you can see at the end, Riggs goes from the arm-lock to the triangle-choke. The movie came out 6 years before the UFC debuted.

Danny Glover was actually 40 years old when he shot this film!

Great reaction! Hilarious and awesome that Sarah loves buddy cop movies. Can't wait for Lethal Weapon 2! I'm never too old for this sh*t!

This movie is why I introduce myself as Mr. Joshua when I work drove thru