Lethal Weapon 3

Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: May 15, 1992

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40	METASCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews

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Roger Ebert

There are elements in the movie that make it worth seeing, and that set it aside from the routine movies in this genre. Read full review

Jeff Shannon

This colossus may be mechanized, but it's gloriously efficient. The stakes get higher with each installment, and Donner knows how to corral the show-stopping mayhem into a polished, antiseptically entertaining package. [15 May 1992, p.3]

Mick LaSalle

A nonstop action picture with a fair amount of laughs, car chases and exploding buildings. [15 May 1992]

Hal Lipper

Gibson and Glover never have been more at ease. Their camaraderie and complementing comic styles grow increasingly engaging. There's too little of peroxide-dipped, gold earring-plated Pesci, who takes Lethal Weapon 3 to a higher comic plane whenever he's present. [15 May 1992, p.5]

Staff (Not Credited)

What this sequel delivers is still the kind of high-speed roller-coaster action that producer Joel Silver's films often do so well. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Lethal Weapon 3 is all about chases and comedy schtick, and in this case the sum of the parts really adds up to more than the whole. Read full review

Jay Boyar

LW3 features a lot of violence but not nearly as much as there was in LW2. And Part 3 puts a greater emphasis on the relationships among the characters. [15 May 1992, p.18]

EmpireJo Berry

If you like fast food movies that you digest and then 10 minutes later forget what you had - or if a simple evening’s entertainment is what you’re after, this will certainly do the trick. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Lethal Weapon 3 picks up where Lethal Weapon 2 left off, with the same gags and tough-guy dialogue but things are starting to wear a bit thin. Read full review

Vincent Canby

Lethal Weapon 3 isn't that much worse than the two earlier films. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

The movie zips around without any true forward momentum. The stars carry you along, though. Read full review

Noel Murray

The third film has way too many moments that push too far toward the absurd. Read full review

TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)

More of the same, but it's now so far removed from any sense of reality, and done with such ham-fisted insistence, it's become a clumsy parody of itself. Read full review

Desson Howe

A wham-bam encounter, it gives you everything you (presumably) want, sets itself up for another sequel, and it makes sure you don't recall a thing about it in the morning. Read full review

M.L. Lyke

Sure-handed actionmeister Donner keeps the pacing breathless, and gives his actors plenty of room to do their thing. [15 May 1992]

Rick Groen

It's better than 2, but not nearly as good as 1. On the slippery slope of sequel-land, that's an okay average. [15 May 1992]

Susan Wloszczyna

In its third go-round, the Lethal Weapon arsenal is running out of ammunition. [15 May 1992]

Steve Davis

It's bigger, but it ain't necessarily better. Read full review

Clifford Terry

They once again trot out the same cynical, numbing formula: bullets, bonding and bravado tempered with self-congratulatory humor.

Jonathan Rosenbaum

More of the same, though a lot coarser than its immediate predecessor, and the characters and situations have now calcified to the point where they're simply sitcom staples. Read full review

Peter Rainer

The latest, and, one fears, not the last episode in the kiss-kiss-bang-bang saga of L.A. police Detectives Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) and Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) is even more of a comic strip than its immediate predecessor. [15 May 1992]

Jay Carr

Lethal Weapon 3 is a big, dumb, noisy, comic strip of a movie that begins and ends in flames.

Hal Hinson

Lethal Weapon 3 is pretty much the same as "Lethal Weapon 2," which was pretty much the same as "Lethal Weapon." Read full review

Peter Travers

Lethal Weapon 3 offers mediocrity wielded by experts. It's not a movie, it's a machine. Read full review

Hillel Italie

Lethal Weapon 3 offends on all levels. With its empty-headed direction and lazy acting, the film deserves to be ignored. [14 May 1992]

Julie Salamon

It's all played for giggles, this grim anti-humanism. [21 May 1992]