Show The Salt Lake Tribune March Fridav M5 1987 6 ‘Lethal Weapon’ overloaded By Terry Orme Tribune Staff Writer The good news about "Lethal Weapon" is that it pairs two very charismatic actors — Mel Gibson and Danny Glover — and the chemistry works The bad news is that the film strays far from the characters Gibson and Film review Danny Glover 'eft and Mel Gibson play cops with very different styles who end up partners on a murder investiga-twtion in action thriller “Lethal Weapon” i o I Billjoard’s hit records for week By The Associated Press C Copyright 1987 by Billboard Publications Inc Reprinted with permission Billboard's best sellers tor week endlno March 7 TOP SINGLES: t LIVIN' ON A PRAYER Bon Jovl - 1 Motown - Bruce - SLIPPERY WHEN Mercury 2 WET — Bon JUST LIKE THE FIRST TIME Jackson Copltol 1 Jovl THE WA Y IT IS — Bruce Hornsby 4 The Range RCA 4 INVISIBLE TOUCH — Genesis Atlantic — Janet Jackson A4M 5 CONTROL BLACK SINGLES: 1 SLOW DOWN Loose Ends MCA 2 HAVE YOU - VER LOVED SOMEBODY 3 Mer-cur- y - 2 JACOB'S LADDER — Huey Lewis & The News Chrysalis 3 YOU GOT IT ALL — The Jets MCA 4 SOAAE WHERE OUT THERE (FROM "AN AMERICAN TAIL") — L Ronstadt-- J Ingram MCA 5 RESPECT YOURSELF BLACK ALBUMS: TOP ALBUMS: LICENSED TO ILL Beostle Boys — Freddie Jackson Capitol lumbia YOU GOT IT ALL — The Jets MCA LET'S WAIT AWHILE — Janet Jackson A4M 5 LOOKING FOR A NEW LOVE Jodv Watley MCA 4 - - Beostle Boys Co- Van-dro- Epic WORD UP — Cameo Atlanta Artists 5 LIFE LOVE AND PAIN Club Nou4 - veau Warner Bros COUNTRY SINGLES: RIDE — Lee Greenwood MORNIN' MCA 2 NO PLACE LIKE HOME - Randy Travis Warner Bros 3 BABY'S GOT A NEW BABY — Capitol Riggs and Murtaugh meet some old acquaintances from Vietnam during the course of "Lethal Weapon" When an old army buddy's daughter is murdered Murtaugh goes on a personal crusade to find those responsible He and his partner find themselves up against a powerful heroin CITOW5 SENIOR HURT “ANGEL 00 5 AT “IITHAl 00 5 and-tru- e AT 00 3 1 9 30 10 20 5 7 PRESENTATION' 3 15 5 A1 “CROCOOtlE (UK4HA) 00 9 00 7 (R) STEREO DUPCEE" ) 15 25925 7 BEST DIRECTOR kiilanu joh e SAT MATINEES1 H5 9 20 710 9 (SI I&766 Soofh Redwood HEART (Rl "ANGEL "H00SIERS" T00AY THRU 30 12 2 5 (Rl TODAY 45 3 45 5:45 AT DOLBY STEREO WIDOW" DOLBY IN 309 30 “ATGREATi III DREAM SUNDAY FILM AT 745 9 45 IN 915 THRU SUNDAY TODAY (R) Trolley 45 9 30 15 FORTUM" (Rl TODAY 1:15 3:15 515 715 “OUTRAGEOUS “BLACK 7 THRU WARRIORS" 1 30 ON ELM STREET “A NGHTMARE Now uljyin jt ff ns theatre Corners Check Theatre i fu Omm 6 Turk Dolby bterou Showtimes tngjement' Special Presentation' IN 309 7 TODAY 30 3 30 AT STEREO co-st- ar 5:007 45 DUNDEE" “CROCOOIIE SUNDAY 00 THRU SUNDAY IN DOLBY PGl T00AY AT STEREO 305 12 15 2 AT DOLBY STEREO K MISSION HI DREAM 9 20 Saturday Mafnees1 7 20 II I SAT MATS SAT MATS 10 ON ELM STREET iRl Today WARRIORS" DOLBY SPEC (PG) WEAPON" IN 115 “MANXEQUWr BEST PICTURE PRESENTATION! 30 9 45 Daily Including Stereo at 12:45 Dolby DAILY (Rl iff! 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DOLBY STEREO IN TODAY (R) 7 15 J3 APfYTM OMY 9 30 15 7 WEAPON” 2 50 HOLLYWOOD will team up with hot young star Tom Cruise and with him in a major motion picture Hoffman and Cruise will head the cast of "Rainman” for producers Peter Guber John Peters and Roger Birnbaum from an original screenplay by Barry Morrow The United Artists film will begin principal photography in late March on locations in Chicago Las Vegas and Los Angeles It is scheduled for Christmas 1987 release ( folitrlfM "A NIGHTMARE ‘Rainman’ calls Hoffman Tom Cruise (UPI) - Like Paul Newman before him Dustin Hoffman import operation formed by a cotcro service veterans using connections from their days in the war Director Richard Donner "Goo mes Superman - The Movie") cm bcllishes this story with the tried commercial formula ot stunning stunts car crashes and end less gunfire The bodies pile up fast Gibson and Glover are the only twi actors who do something with then characters Gary Biisey as a psycho! ic hit man paints his character m an emotional monotone "Lethal Weapon" is one of (Iiom movies designed to snare a large an dience with action overload Gibson and Glover emerge from the may hem unscathed their reputations as serious actors intact But it's far from the best work either has done of ger Glover is particularly fine as the father and husband who has spent his 20 years on the force making certain he never gets into a situation he couldn't get out of He's constantly thinking about his family his responsibility to them and when he meets Martin Riggs he fears his string of good luck is about to end ic - Freddie 3 GIVE ME THE REASON — Luther 1 3 Willis 2 LICENSED TO ILL Glover play becoming instead a formula movie with innumerable fiery car crashes gun fights fist fights and other cartoonish forms of violence The premise of "Lethal Weapon" is promising Two Vietnam veterans — one who has put the war behind him and is getting along well in life the other a walking time bomb — find themselves partners on the Los Angeles police homicide squad These two meet one another with no small amount of trepidation But after a couple of days on the street and a few instances under fire they come to a mutual respect realizing that each can learn something from the other Gibson as the suicidal Martin Riggs and Glover as the stable Roger Murtaugh are a dynamic pair They breathe both dramatic and life into a script which uses every cop cliche in the book Gibson gives a double-edge- d performance as a man on the edge who often questions his reasons for living Vietnam isn't his only painful memory — he's recently become a widower At one moment Gibson’s character is an amusing portrait of a man willing to risk anything — including his own life — to nail a drug dealer The next moment he's a pathetic and lonely man who could easily put the gun to his own head and pull the trig- AT 45 3 00 5:15 7:30 9 45 12 5HT cm ATT "PLATOON” 950 (Rl Today SPECIAL MISSION" “THE STEREO “MAHXQUK" STEREO AT AT (PG) 5 00 TRACK DOLBY PRESENTATION! 7:30 9 45 5 15 SAT MATS! 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