Danny Glover was still in familiar form as Officer Murtaugh, with Riggs nowhere in sight, this time pursuing a vicious killer played by none other than Tom Cruise, who revealed his violent insanity in an early scene with his protégé, Seann William Scott from American Pie. Scott smashed a mirror in anger and Cruise stared lovingly at his own increasingly bloody reflection in the glass as it was broken in slow-motion. Murtaugh in dirty undershirt cornered them in an office building, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson appeared at his side as (disposable) backup, and I got the impression their climactic shootout was the stuff of better cinema. Reminds me, I want to watch Hard Boiled again.
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