Lethal Weaponis a 1989 American buddy cop action film directed by Richard Donner, and starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci , Patsy Kensit, Derrick OConnor and Joss Ackland. It is a sequel to the 1987 film Lethal Weapon and second installment in the Lethal Weapon series.
One year after the events of Lethal Weapon, LAPD sergeants Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh are pursuing unidentified suspects transporting an illegal shipment of gold krugerrands. The Afrikaner apartheid government of South Africa subsequently orders local consulgeneral Arjen Rudd Joss Ackland and security agent Pieter Vorstedt Derrick OConnor to warn both detectives off the investigation they are reassigned to protecting an obnoxious federal witness, Leo Getz Joe Pesci, after an attack on Murtaughs home.It soon becomes clear that both cases are related after an attempt on Getzs life, Riggs and Murtaugh learn of the formers murky past laundering funds for vengeful smugglers. Getz eventually leads them to the gang, but upon dispatching his wouldbe assassin and returning with backup they are confronted by Rudd, who invokes diplomatic immunity on behalf of his unscrupulous associates. ........
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