Honestly, how unnecessary is this movie? I'd say it ranks slightly above the automatic cereal dispenser, but somewhere just below Lethal Weapons 1-3. Seriously, wasn't the original gimmick that the main guy was a loose cannon because he was all suicidal and shit? If he hasn't offed himself by Part fucking 4 then let's face it, it's not gonna happen. And come to think of it, wasn't the other main guy planning on retiring way back in Part 1? What the hell is he waiting for? Maybe his pension goes up a dollar a month for every additional decade he stays on the force.

So, the first scene, where the black cop distracts a guy who's shooting at them with an assault rifle and a flamethrower by running down the street in his underwear, is so goddamned retarded that I took it as a personal insult (and if that's really how you want to play it, then fuck your mother, writer of Lethal Weapon 4), but at least it results in an entire gas station blowing up. (One of the main themes of these movies is that almost everything that happens has to result in a gas station blowing up.) After that the rest of the story is mainly a bunch of jokes interrupted by the occasional gunfight. Seriously, we've got the loudmouthed midget from Casino cracking wise, Everybody Hates Chris Rock cracking wise, the two main guys cracking wise, random walk-ons cracking wise... Did they completely forget that this is supposed to be an action movie? And considering the fact that this series already has like twenty secondary characters running around did they really need to add an entire Chinese family to the mix? (Speaking of Chinese people, what is with all the racist chink jokes in this flick? I thought that actor who plays the white cop only hated the Jews.) There is one decent car chase, but other than that this movie is like one of those sitcoms that's still on way past its expiration date and has added so many lame new characters over the years that you can't wait 'til the damn thing gets cancelled so you can finally pretend that they're all dead.