Focus LA

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Movie
German title Lethal Weapon 2 - Focal Point LA
Original title Lethal Weapon 2
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Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1989
length Director's Cut : 113 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Richard Donner
script Shane Black
Jeffrey Boam
Warren Murphy
production Richard Donner
Joel Silver
music Eric Clapton
George Harrison
Michael Kamen
David Sanborn
camera Stephen Goldblatt
cut Stuart Baird
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Lethal Weapon - Two tough professionals

Successor  →
Focal Point LA - The professionals are back

Focus LA , under the reference title Lethal Weapon 2 - focal point of LA known is an American action film from 1989. The director was Richard Donner , the screenplay written Shane Black , Jeffrey Boam and Warren Murphy . The main roles were played by Mel Gibson and Danny Glover .

The film is a continuation of the action film Lethal Weapon - Two steel-hard professionals from 1987. The film opened on September 28, 1989 in German cinemas.

action

The LAPD -Detectives Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh pursue one night a car. It drives into a shop and has an accident; the driver escapes, but Riggs and Murtaugh find the trunk filled with Krugerrand gold coins.

The next day they are assigned to protect the witness Leo Getz. They prevent an attack on him and learn that Getz laundered around $ 500 million in drug money . Riggs and Murtaugh track down the South African diplomats headed by Arjen Rudd and his assistant Pieter Vorstedt, who are abusing their diplomatic immunity to trade drugs. Since they cannot officially prosecute him, Riggs and Murtaugh try to provoke him to do something stupid, which amounts to Rudd starting to see the two cops as a danger. With a nightly attack on Murtaugh's family and finally an explosive device in his toilet, they try in vain to dissuade him and Riggs from the investigation.

Riggs meets the consulate's secretary, Rika van den Haas, with whom he has a love affair; a little later, however, Martin and Rika are attacked by Vorstedt and his men and finally kidnapped. Riggs learns that Vorstedt had wanted to kill him a few years earlier because Riggs had come dangerously close to their organization and instead caught his wife. Riggs escapes, but Rika is cruelly murdered. The gangsters also carry out attacks on Murtaugh and Riggs colleagues, in which most of them perish. Murtaugh himself is ambushed in his own house and can kill his attackers, but Leo falls into the hands of the gangsters.

Riggs and Murtaugh then declare war on Rudd and his gang. After they raided the consul's house and freed Leo again, they follow his lead to a ship that is supposed to bring the drug money to South Africa. They are discovered, but escape the trap set and engage in an exchange of fire with the crew. Riggs finally confronts Vorstedt and crushes him under a container; but then he is shot by Rudd. When Murtaugh confronts him, Rudd is confident of his diplomatic immunity. Murtaugh shoots him with the sarcastic comment "... it has just expired" and finds Riggs - seriously injured, but alive. Together they laugh a little at their condition, while reinforcements arrive.

Reviews

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on July 7, 1989 that the film was a "rarity" as a sequel in the same quality as the original. He praised the direction by Richard Donner and the "refreshing" dialogues by Jeffrey Boam. He also praised the introduction of the comic character of Leo Getz .

“Surprisingly entertaining sequel to the tough crime film“ Zwei stahlharte Profis ”(1986). The thin plot is just as deliberately and effectively whipped up by emphatically exaggerated stereotypes of the genre, lots of action, fabulous special effects and a good dose of irony. "

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

The film was nominated for an Oscar in 1990 for Best Sound Effects. Eric Clapton , Michael Kamen and David Sanborn won the 1990 BMI Film Music Award .

backgrounds

The film was a box office earnings of about 150 million US dollars in the US and about 80 million US dollars outside the US of the most commercially successful film of the year's third 1989th

synchronization

role actor Voice actor
Martin Riggs Mel Gibson Elmar Wepper
Roger Murtaugh Danny Glover Uwe Friedrichsen
Leo Getz Joe Pesci Mogens von Gadow
Arjen Rudd Joss Ackland Friedrich Schuetter
Pieter Vorstedt Derrick O'Connor Fred Maire
Rika van den Haas Patsy Kensit Madeleine proud
Trish Murtaugh Darlene Love Marion Hartmann
Captain Ed Murphy Steve Kahan Reinhard Glemnitz
Tim Cavanaugh Dean Norris Fred Klaus
Hans Mark Rolston Michael Brennicke
Meagan Shapiro Jenette Goldstein Manuela Renard
George Allan Dean Moore Manou Lubowski
Becker Kenneth Tigar Michael Rüth
Mickey McGee, the carpenter Jack McGee Michael Gahr

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for focal point LA . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2010 (PDF; test number: 62 657-a V).
  2. ^ Review by Roger Ebert
  3. ^ Focal point LA In: Lexicon of international film . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ^ Awards for Lethal Weapon 2 - Focal Point LA
  5. ↑ Box office / business for Lethal Weapon 2 - Focal Point LA
  6. ^ Focal point LA in the German synchronous file ; Retrieved August 28, 2009