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''Lethal Weapon 2'' is a 1989 American buddy cop action film directed by Richard Donner, and starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci , Patsy Kensit, Derrick O'Connor and Joss Ackland. It is a sequel to the 1987 film ''Lethal Weapon'' and second installment in the ''Lethal Weapon'' series. Gibson and Glover respectively reprise their roles as L.A.P.D. officers, Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh, who protect an irritating federal witness (Pesci), while taking on a gang of South African drug dealers hiding behind diplomatic immunity. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Editing (Robert G. Henderson). The film received mostly positive reviews and earned more than $227 million worldwide. ==Plot== One year after the events of Lethal Weapon, LAPD sergeants Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh are pursuing unidentified suspects transporting an illegal shipment of gold krugerrands. The Afrikaner apartheid government of South Africa subsequently orders local consul-general Arjen Rudd (Joss Ackland) and security agent Pieter Vorstedt (Derrick O'Connor) to warn both detectives off the investigation; they are reassigned to protecting an obnoxious federal witness, Leo Getz (Joe Pesci), after an attack on Murtaugh's home. It soon becomes clear that both cases are related: after an attempt on Getz's life, Riggs and Murtaugh learn of the former's murky past laundering funds for vengeful smugglers. Getz eventually leads them to the gang, but upon dispatching his would-be assassin and returning with backup they are confronted by Rudd, who invokes diplomatic immunity on behalf of his unscrupulous 'associates'. Though instructed to leave the case alone, Riggs begins to openly harass the South African consulate, defying Rudd and romancing his secretary, Rika van den Haas (Patsy Kensit), a liberal-minded Afrikaner who despises her boss and his racial philosophy. Vorstedt is dispatched to murder all of the officers investigating them while Murtaugh deduces that Rudd is attempting to ship funds from his smuggling circle in the United States to Cape Town via Los Angeles Harbor. Two assassins attack Murtaugh at his home, but he kills them in the ensuing fight, though Getz is abducted in the process. After killing several police officers, Vorstedt seizes Riggs at the van den Haas home and discloses that he was responsible for the death of Martin's wife years earlier during a botched assassination. He succeeds in drowning Rika, but a vengeful Riggs manages to escape. He phones Murtaugh, declaring an intention to pursue Rudd and avenge their fallen friends; the other policeman willingly forsakes his badge to aid his partner. Rescuing Getz, they head for the ''Alba Varden'', Rudds' freighter, as the South Africans prepare their getaway with millions in drug money. Riggs and Murtaugh stow away in a crate, engaging the ship's crew when they are discovered. Riggs confronts and fights Vorstedt hand-to-hand, culminating when Riggs stabs Vorstedt and crushes him with a falling cargo container. Rudd retaliates by shooting Riggs in the back numerous times. Heedless of his claims to protected status, Murtaugh kills Rudd and tends to Riggs, sharing a laugh with him as more LAPD personnel respond to the scene. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lethal Weapon 2」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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