Lethal Weapon 3
The cold open involves the protagonists failing to disarm a bomb. Suck it Nolan, you were not the first to demolish a building. This is a deep lore release, filled with little nods and massive self rip offs.
After that fuck up, they are demoted to beat cops, and the first thing they do is terrorise a random citizen, then intervene in a bank “robbery”, where fake security guards just take the money. Delores the Road Warrior chases them. The getaway driver is the “you’re not dealing with morons here” guy from The Big Lebowski.
The plot meanders a lot, most of the times they are going somewhere for plot related reasons. There’s some old guy shtick, better done in MIB.
“More plastic than Cher”? Jeez, she’s doesn’t deserve that, where is her MAGA face? Speaking of bad jokes, there’s again a hint that Riggs and Murtaugh are gays, for the lulz, and Joe Pesci gets in on the action too, “don’t let the earring fool you”. And a “master baiter” pun, ridiculous.
“I’ve never been to Portugal”, that comes out of the blue! As sudden as that scene comparing injuries that leads to Mel Gibson in underwear.
After killing probably dozens of dudes, Murtaugh gets punch-drunk for killing a 15 years old kid with a MAC-10. Three days from retiring even. The copaganda goes to truly incredible lengths on the funeral, Jesus fucking Christ. And of course the shrink is brutally mocked, men won’t go to therapy even if they are legally mandated.
The bad guy is a dirty cop, freeing crooks into his own private sub-rosa army, stealing confiscated guns, drugs, and ammo. The hard ass police chief is clean, of course. The cool chick is one of the boys.
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