

Lethal Weapon 2
The magic is back!
Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.
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7.1/10
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $25M
- Box office
- $227.9M
- Language
- English
- showdown
- police
- loss of loved one
- sequel
- mixed martial arts (mma)
- gang
- los angeles, california
- police detective
- buddy cop
- diplomatic immunity
- lapd
- maverick cop
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United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereLos Angeles, California5 Jul 1989
- TheatricalR7 Jul 1989
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1515 Sept 1989
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM10 Aug 1989
CanadaCA
- Theatrical7 Jul 1989
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical21 Sept 1989
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1421 Sept 1989
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical1511 Aug 1989
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-164 Aug 1989
FranceFR
- TheatricalTP2 Aug 1989
- TVTV Breizh14 Jan 2026
- TVTF1 Séries Films18 Mar 2026
- TVCanal+ Grand Écran7 Jun 2026
GermanyDE
- Theatrical16West Germany 28 Sept 1989
GreeceGR
- Theatrical1630 Sept 1989
HungaryHU
- Theatrical1821 Jun 1990
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Lethal Weapon 2 was released on 7 July 1989.
Audience reviews
4- J7/10
John Chard
7/7/2019
A truly great sequel that expands upon the friendship that was born in the first picture. Intrepid cop partners Riggs & Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats who are using their diplomatic immunities to engage in criminal activities. With the success of Lethal Weapon in 1987 it made common sense to follow it with a sequel. All the same elements were in place, cast, director and writers were all …
- J8/10
JPV852
8/28/2019
Fun sequel with plenty of action and the teamwork between Gibson and Glover was great. Joe Pesci was fine but kind of got a bit annoying. Still highly entertaining all these years later.
- K8/10
kevin2019
8/16/2024
"Lethal Weapon 2" has a generous selection of set piece action sequences which usually results in the wholesale destruction of property and all in the name of entertainment. These sequences have been exceptionally well executed and they certainly go towards further enlivening what is an already highly entertaining although not particularly memorable motion picture experience. A lot of the carefully constructed script…
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
1/24/2025
Flushed with their success from 1987, our intrepid pair of investigators now find themselves embroiled in a cunning smuggling operation being run, they think, out of the diplomatically protected South African consulate. They think this because a previous raid revealed an hoard of Krugerrand and then "Murtaugh" (Danny Glover) and his family were quite unceremoniously warned to leave well alone. It's drugs that are the…
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