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Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)

1998 film directed by Richard Donner

Released
10 July 1998
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre
Martial arts film
Director
Richard Donner
Screenplay
Channing Gibson, Jonathan Lemkin, Alfred Gough, Miles Millar
Producer
Joel Silver, Richard Donner
Music
Michael Kamen
Cinematography
Andrzej Bartkowiak
Editing
Dallas Puett
Starring
Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Jet Li, Mary Ellen Trainor, Shawn Michaels, Darlene Love
Running time
127 minutes
Production company
Silver Pictures
Distributor
InterCom, Netflix
Box office
$285.4 million
Budget
$140 million
Set in
Los Angeles

Lethal Weapon 4 is a 1998 American buddy cop action film directed and produced by Richard Donner, and starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Chris Rock, and Jet Li (in his international film debut). The sequel to the 1992 film, Lethal Weapon 3, it is the fourth and final installment in the Lethal Weapon film series. It is the last film in the series directed by Donner before his death in 2021, and the latest to be released theatrically.

The film was released by Warner Bros. on July 10, 1998. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $285 million worldwide, becoming the tenth highest-grossing film of 1998.

A fifth film, with Glover and Gibson set to reprise their roles as Riggs and Murtaugh, has languished in development hell since 2007.

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Facts from Wikidata Q429397 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.