Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: May 15, 1992 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
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7
Mixed:
11
Negative:
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75
The Seattle TimesJeff 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]
75
A nonstop action picture with a fair amount of laughs, car chases and exploding buildings. [15 May 1992]
75
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]
63
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]
50
Seattle Post-IntelligencerM.L. Lyke
Sure-handed actionmeister Donner keeps the pacing breathless, and gives his actors plenty of room to do their thing. [15 May 1992]
50
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]
50
In its third go-round, the Lethal Weapon arsenal is running out of ammunition. [15 May 1992]
38
Chicago TribuneClifford Terry
They once again trot out the same cynical, numbing formula: bullets, bonding and bravado tempered with self-congratulatory humor.
30
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]
25
Lethal Weapon 3 is a big, dumb, noisy, comic strip of a movie that begins and ends in flames.
0
The Associated PressHillel 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]
0
It's all played for giggles, this grim anti-humanism. [21 May 1992]