Lethal Weapon vs Mission: Impossible III

Lethal Weapon has the higher audience score (7.3/10 against 6.7/10 for Mission: Impossible III). Lethal Weapon is the shorter watch at 1h 50m compared with 2h 6m. Lethal Weapon is the older of the two (1987 against 2006). Both are action, adventure, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Lethal Weapon posterLethal Weapon1987 VS Mission: Impossible III posterMission: Impossible III2006
Lethal WeaponMission: Impossible III
Audience score★ 7.3/10★ 6.7/10
Year19872006
Length1h 50m2h 6m
GenresAction, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, ThrillerAction, Adventure, Thriller
CountryUnited States of America–
DirectorRichard DonnerJ.J. Abrams
Main castMel Gibson, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Tom Atkins, Gary Busey, Danny GloverJonathan Rhys Meyers, Maggie Q, Eddie Marsan, Laurence Fishburne, Keri Russell

Synopsis

Lethal Weapon

A veteran cop and an unstable detective become partners who must put their differences aside in order to bring down a heroin-smuggling ring run by ex-Special Forces.

Mission: Impossible III

Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian, an international broker of arms and information, who's as cunning as he is ruthless. Davian emerges to threaten Hunt and all that he holds dear – including the woman Hunt loves.

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