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When Hollywood invented the “franchise property”, Donner was at the centre of things. His macho Lethal Weapon movies with Mel Gibson and Danny Glover were far from enlightened on sexual politics. But they gave a black man equal billing with a white man in a top-flight Hollywood movie: rare in 1987 and rare even now.
...Just two guys, black and white, like an LAPD squad car, taking down the bad guys with deafening firepower and spectacular explosions... Nothing conjures up the 1980s like Lethal Weapon, and Donner directed those films with magnificent brio