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Lethal Weapon 2
MEANRANK
73/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1802
- IMDb #1445
- Rotten Tomatoes #1610
- Metacritic #1284
- Letterboxd #1689
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1898
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1815
- Metacritic Critics #1482
- Metacritic Audience #1065
- Criticker #1714
- Douban #1611
- Kinopoisk #500
- AlloCiné #1116
- Trakt #1255
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Lowest is Criticker on 49, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 82.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Los Angeles police detectives Riggs and Murtaugh are assigned to protect a fast-talking federal witness involved in a case against a South African diplomatic envoy. They soon discover the diplomats are using their immunity to run a massive smuggling operation, forcing the duo to battle criminals who hide behind diplomatic protection.
Details
- Director
- Richard Donner
- Writers
- Jeffrey Boam, Shane Black, Warren Murphy
- Studio
- Silver Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures
- Released
- 7 July 1989
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Afrikaans, Danish
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $25.0M
- Box office
- $227.9M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 2 nominations
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Awards & nominations
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| 62nd Academy Awards 1990 | Best Sound Editing | Alan Robert Murray | Nominee |
| 62nd Academy Awards 1990 | Best Sound Editing | Robert G. Henderson | Nominee |
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2 awards — Lethal Weapon 2
×| Best Sound Editing | Alan Robert Murray | Nominee |
| Best Sound Editing | Robert G. Henderson | Nominee |