Riggs manages to fuck up every single time his supposed lethality is put to the test (snipering in the desert, final duel, chase scenes, etc).
He should kill, but he cannot.
What is up with such inability?
I wish we were shown his skills in action (he brags about them with Martaugh with his Laos tale, but I expected some bad guy to be an example of it).
Underwhelming.
well , he lethaled Al Leung (the interrogator)while tied up .
True, that is his higlight moment.
But he should have not been there in the first place, since his whole big plan to rescue Rianne was a bust. And that was precisely so because he was not lethal enough.
(About this whole rescue fiasco, it would have been a much better plot if they planned to get captured intentionally, as a way to rescue her. Or as a way to get to the bad guys base.)
He killed two or three of the thugs in the desert. He just couldn't get a bead on Joshua before the head guy found him.
And he really wasn't bragging to Murtaugh about his skills. Watch the scene again and you will see that he says "it's the only thing I was ever good at", but he doesn't seem proud of it. It seems to me that he feels he is useless otherwise.
i think, last time i counted, riggs kills 5 dead in the desert, 5 in the warehouse and then 5 in the club. could be 4 each instead of 5. and i think murtaugh kills 1 or 2 in each of those scenes. not counting offscreen gun shots.
shareOk but that's what ANY mediocre sniper with a tactical advantage should get. He was ok in the warehouse, but again, he should have not been there in the first place had he been as lethal as he said he was.
Come on, he's not that lethal.
Of course Murtaugh is even less so, but he's a 50 y.o. almost retired detective, not a hot shot special forces assassin.
Credit where it's due: Long before Tom Cruise hoodwinked the public into buying him as action hero, Mel Gibson was the scrawny 5'5 actor(Dude wasn't a martial artist) who "triumphed" in hand to hand combat with guys 8 times his size
shareGibson has always been anaction hero since Mad Max.
Maybe that is what makes Cruise singular: he pushed this action hero persona when he was already an established sex symbol/cool guy/dramatic actor, halfway into his career.
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