Lethal Weapon 2 (Director's Cut)

Ant it's yours to enjoy as the duo draws a head on criminals hiding behind diplomatic immunity. Riggs wows the pretties of a hotel spa before getting to Getz. Plus, feisty Leo shares a newly included scene in which he recalls a suspect's address by complex spins of numbers that, well, no one can tell it like Leo. It's police procedure, Lethal style. And no one would follow his lead but Riggs and Murtaugh. Murtaugh receives bad bodywork news from an auto repairman after his beleaguered station wagon sees some Riggs-piloted street action.

But the reckless Mel and cautious Danny equation, good for a million laughs, settles into place in this story involving a South African smuggler and a new girlfriend (Patsy Kensit) for Gibson. Joe Pesci joins the fold, Richard Donner directs again, and Mel Gibson and Danny Glover return as LAPD partners, their relationship smoother now that Gibson's character has recovered from his maddening grief over his wife's death. The movie is hardly comfy, though. The series formula started to kick in with this immediate sequel to Lethal Weapon, but that doesn't necessarily make it a weak movie. --Tom Keogh The last act gets nasty, and a climactic fight between Gibson (who gets the worst of it) and some high-kicking villain is ugly.