After Riggs and Rika left the trailer after being shot at, it seems kind of careless for Riggs to drop Rika off at her house. Especially when Riggs knew who was shooting. I would have thought Riggs would have the sense to take Rika to the police station.
Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love this movie, the rest of the lethal weapon series, and other mindless 80's action movies. This part just didn't make any sense to me.
I just finished watching this scene....and hit up IMDB to see what other viewers thought of it. I agree with you. I feel like the script took a complete vacation from reality!
shareYeah, because the rest of the movie, and series, is so realistic
shareThis made me LOL.
Clearly if this was really going on, the State Department would have them all expelled in about 10 seconds.
I once got into a big argument with a coworker over this movie. Her response was "oh no, they have diplomatic immunity, nothing can be done".
They may not be able to be prosecuted, but they don't have to be allowed to stay in the country.
Yeah, I agree. I found the part too odd. I thought Riggs should have taken a lot of security measures because she was technically under the employ of the South African consulate. Hence, she would be traced to the shootout. Riggs knew who was behind the scenes for that. I pretty much blame him for her needless death.
shareI think many things don't make sense in this film.
I agree with you that she at least deserved to make a statement about the shooting at the police station and maybe spend the night there.
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You've made a good point there. Riggs should have known that the South Africans would be coming for them. Besides that, why didn't they kill Riggs when he was getting into his pickup truck? All of the other cops from that search of the SA embassy were killed outright; though Murtaugh killed the guys that came for him.
share@davbot That was Vorstedt's Dr. Evil moment. Put Riggs in a deathtrap and assume that he'll die from it.
shareAt no point do any of the shooters see Rika so it makes sense that he'd think they wouldn't know she was there.
Also, her making a statement at the police station would be pointless due to diplomatic immunity within the context of the movie, so he probably felt that was a bad option too.
Within what needs to happen in the film, it make sense.
Her death was superfluous. Telling Riggs he killed his wife was sufficient to get him to pull down the house.
shareDespite this movie having more flaws than the original, this is the only bad scene in the movie to me.
They've just been shot at and Riggs's trailer was turned into Swiss cheese, and he just casually drops her off at her apartment and she's all calm and relaxed like it was a nice evening out.
Even as a child watching this, my reaction was WTF.
LOL
Yea that was very funny and terrible at the same time
shareEven though i like the film, that's one of the small things i always disliked about it. Apparently, there was a deleted scene where after the shootout at his trailer, Riggs and Rika sneak into the embassy and Rika helps Riggs to put some tracking device on one of the cars belonging to South Africans, which would also explain how Riggs and Murtaugh later find the cargo ship. Then they would go to her house all calm and happy thinking everything's gonna be alright but since Africans saw them (because of the video camera) in the parking lot, they know that Rika is helping him so they ambush them and you know the rest. This scene was never released, although if you check out the "Pulling the Trigger - Expanding the World of Lethal Weapon" documentary from Blu-Ray pack of all four films, at around 08:11 mark you can see some outtakes of Mel and Patsy from this deleted scene.
shareAh, just watched this on IFC and was wondering about this scene, but your information about the deleted scene explains things. Also, considering the bad guys were at Riggs' car right after he drops Rika off means they had already been followed. If Riggs decided to drive Rika to the police station or anywhere else the bad guys would have either gotten them both anyways once they stopped or would have made their presence known earlier and run them off the road.
shareThe thing that always gets me is Sam the dog didn't bark to warn Riggs the bad guys were sneaking up on him. He was hiding in the back of the truck. Most dogs I know of would go out of their way to protect their owners from danger.
shareThen they would've killed Sam. So that would just be trading one life for another.
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