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Premise: A retiring detective is paired up with a cop-on-the-edge to take down a drug dealer with military connections.
Directed by: Richard Donner
Stars: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Tom Atkins, Mitch Ryan
Review: The movie that re-invented the buddy-cop genre. You can probably divide the genre by this movie - before it, cops might be slightly different, but they were both basically stable by-the-number Dragnet types. After this movie, it was always a staid trooper and a psycho/loose cannon/nutjob type who either played it up for laughs or for psycho qualities.
Gibson is great as Riggs, Glover is great as Murtaugh, and the fights and subsequent scenes - between partners and between the cops and the villains - are all great. Busey in particular is a great psycho villain named Joshua who has connections to Riggs' past.
One of my favorite movies in this genre.
Overall: Good
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