Lethal Weapon 2

Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats who are using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.

• Director:Richard Donner
• Genre:Action / Comedy / Thriller
• Runtime:110 minutes

Cast

Mel Gibson : Martin Riggs
Danny Glover : Sergeant Roger Murtaugh
Joe Pesci : Leo Getz
Joss Ackland : Arjen Rudd
Derrick O’Connor: Pieter Vorstedt

The story opens with LAPD Sergeants Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh engaged in a car chase with a red BMW E24. After it crashes, they move in to arrest the driver, but find he has escaped. Searching the car, they discover the trunk is full of South African Krugerrands (gold coins which were illegal in the U.S. due to sanctions against the South African apartheid regime). Later that night, Murtaugh is attacked, tied up to his bed, and gagged at his home by thugs dressed in black hoods, warning him to cease the investigation around the Krugerrands.

In the wake of the attack on Murtaugh, he and Riggs are reassigned to a less dangerous task, protecting a Federal witness, Leo Getz (Joe Pesci). Mere moments after arriving at Getz’s hotel room, an assassin posing as room service enters the room and tries to kill Getz. Riggs and Murtaugh subsequently discover Getz has been laundering funds for the same drug smugglers and he leads them to their base of operations, a house on stilts. Riggs recognizes one of the men in the house as the assassin from the hotel. The assassin tries to make an escape by stealing a tow-truck parked outside the house. Riggs jumps onto the back of the tow truck, and Murtaugh and Getz chase after Riggs and the suspect. Later that day, Riggs and Murtaugh return to the house on stilts with full backup of detectives and uniform officers. Attempting to arrest the gang, Riggs and Murtaugh are confronted by Arjen Rudd (Joss Ackland), the minister of affairs for the South African Consulate. Rudd indignantly invokes diplomatic immunity on behalf of himself and his ‘staff,’ and threatens to report Riggs and Murtaugh to the State Department for violating South African soil.

Although ordered by the Department to leave Rudd and his associates alone, Riggs and Murtaugh are certain that he is the drug trafficker they are looking for and commence a private war against them. While Leo and Murtaugh distract the guards at the consulate, Riggs infiltrates the building and catches the name “Alba Varden,” a name that appears familiar somehow to Murtaugh. At the same time, Riggs begins a romance with Rudd’s secretary, Rika van den Haas (Patsy Kensit), who strongly dislikes both her boss and her country’s policies. Riggs invites her to a dinner at his trailer, which ends in a sexual encounter. Read more

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