Before Mel Gibson’s grizzled Martin Riggs utters, “I’m not a cop tonight, Roger. It's personal,” Lethal Weapon 2’s measure of pure dudes rock goodness is already off the charts. Following up Richard Donner’s sleazy 1987 action-fest wasn’t an easy feat for anyone, but somehow Donner and his new franchise writer, Jeffrey Boam, pulled it off by risking it all. Because sometimes, in the case of sequels, bigger actually is better.
