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Lethal Weapon 4
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6.6With personal crises and age weighing in on them, LAPD officers Riggs and Murtaugh must contend with a deadly Chinese crime lord trying to get his brother out of prison.
Cast
- Mel Gibson as Martin Riggs
- Danny Glover as Roger Murtaugh
- Joe Pesci as Leo Getz
- Rene Russo as Lorna Cole
- Chris Rock as Det.Lee Butters
- Jet Li as Wah Sing Ku
Themes
- showdown
- police
- sequel
- mixed martial arts (mma)
- los angeles, california
- house fire
- triad
- buddy cop
- lapd
- maverick cop
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Ratings
IMDb
6.6/10
179,234 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
54%
Metacritic
39/100
- Year
- 1998
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 4 wins & 11 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Richard Donner
- Screenplay by
- Channing Gibson
- Story by
- Jonathan Lemkin Alfred Gough Miles Millar
- Based on
- Characters, by Shane Black
- Produced by
- Richard Donner Joel Silver
- Starring
- Mel Gibson Danny Glover Joe Pesci Rene Russo Chris Rock Jet Li
- Cinematography
- Andrzej Bartkowiak
- Edited by
- Dallas Puett Kevin Stitt Frank J. Urioste
- Music by
- Michael Kamen Eric Clapton David Sanborn
- Production companies
- Silver Pictures Doshudo Productions
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros.
- Release date
- July 10, 1998 ( 1998-07-10 )
- Running time
- 127 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $100–150 million
- Box office
- $285.4 million
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 127
- FilmAffinity ID
- 353385
- Official website
- www.warnerbros.com/movies/lethal-weapon-4
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- publication date
- 1998-08-13
- title
- Lethal Weapon 4
- box office
- 285444603
- capital cost
- 140000000
- review score
- 39/100
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Lethal Weapon 4 is a 1998 American buddy cop action film directed and produced by Richard Donner, and starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Chris Rock, and Jet Li (in his international film debut). The sequel to the 1992 film, Lethal Weapon 3, it is the fourth and final installment in the Lethal Weapon film series. It is the last film in the series directed by Donner before his death in 2021, and the latest to be released theatrically.
The film was released on July 10, 1998, by Warner Bros.. The film received mixed reviews from critics and was a box-office failure. It grossed $285 million worldwide, becoming the tenth highest-grossing film of 1998.