The rare buddy cop sequel that's better than the original film. Mel Gibson and Danny Glover are a hoot, expanding their partnership on screen, while director Richard Donner gives us more humor and action. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 25, 2021

Director Richard Donner returns, with all of the original cast and more of the same buddy-cop chemistry and wild shenanigans that made the first feature so much fun.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 6, 2020

If you don't mind your comic books being filled with incessant shootings, explosions, knifings, drownings, stranglings, car crashes, fires and the use of automatic nail drivers as weapons, it's a lot of fun.

| Aug 3, 2020

Director Richard Donner accents humour rather than explosive action and the result is an oddly toned, cartoon-like adventure with the comedy elements making the nasty violence seem even more gratuitous.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 3, 2020

Mediocre. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 3, 2020

[T]here's a sense in which all these recent one-against-a-hundred cop and war thrillers represent the gaudy degeneration of the great tradition of the American action movie: substituting hardware for atmosphere...

| Aug 3, 2020

As a sequel it is a notable risk to take the route of a more bitter and dark tone. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 3, 2020

Unlike most sequels Lethal Weapon 2 is neither predictable nor conventional. It's just pumped full of juice.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 3, 2020

The team is back to good effect, and the pairing of Gibson and Glover possesses more chemistry than most romantic screen couples.

| May 18, 2020

A palpably superior sequel...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 11, 2020

I've confused a lot of the good things I remember about the first film with good stuff that in actuality happened in the second.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 12, 2012

Pesci's terrific comic performance really gooses the proceedings, but the film also works because of its exciting action content, the presence of Patsy Kensit as Riggs' love interest, and the series-best interplay between the two lead characters.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 14, 2012

Sequel adds Joe Pesci to the buddy cop formula.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2011

One of the finest examples of the genre, and, in my humble estimation, one of the greatest sequels put to film. Perhaps deranged hyperbole, but rarely does a follow-up outgun the original film as swiftly as Lethal 2 does.

| Original Score: A | Aug 26, 2009

Better than the first!

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 3, 2009

Returning director Richard Donner seems to have smoothed over the few stylistic rough edges remaining from the earlier film to deliver here two hours of pure, breathless, high-impact entertainment.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 25, 2008

Probably the best film in the series to date.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 25, 2008

Loaded with the usual elements, Lethal Weapon 2 benefits from a consistency of tone that was lacking in the first film.

| Jun 6, 2008

...funnier, more exciting, and more action-packed than the others in the series.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 26, 2006

Too jokey and cutesy. This is where the series took a wrong turn toward too much comedy, but the public didn't seem to mind.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Feb 17, 2006