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Movies that feel like Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)

If you loved Lethal Weapon 4, the closest films we have are Infernal Affairs II (2003), Police Story 2 (1988) and Hard Target (1993). All three share Lethal Weapon 4's kinetic and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

With personal crises and age weighing in on them, LAPD officers Riggs and Murtaugh must contend with a deadly Chinese crime lord trying to get his brother out of prison.

πŸ… 54% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.6 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Richard Donnerkineticgrittytense
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Lethal Weapon (1987) Β· Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) Β· Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)

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Infernal Affairs II
2003 Β· dir. Andrew Lau Wai-Keung
πŸ… 75%β˜… 7.2action Β· thriller Β· crime

Both are working the same pair: police, triad

In this prequel to the original, a bloody power struggle among the Triads coincides with the 1997 handover of Hong Kong, setting up the events of the first film.

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Police Story 2
1988 Β· dir. Jackie Chan
πŸ… 84%β˜… 7.1action Β· crime Β· thriller

Common ground in both: showdown and action hero

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

The Hong Kong super-cop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers at the same time that the villains of the first Police Story are out for revenge.

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Hard Target
1993 Β· dir. John Woo
πŸ… 63%β˜… 6.2action Β· thriller Β· crime

One thread runs through both: showdown

When a woman's father goes missing, she enlists a local to aid in her search. The pair soon discover that her father has died at the hands of a wealthy sportsman who hunts homeless men as a form of recreation.

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Police Story 3: Super Cop
1992 Β· dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7action Β· crime Β· thriller

The same preoccupation in both: police

A Hong Kong detective teams up with his female Red Chinese counterpart to stop a Chinese drug czar.

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Assault on Precinct 13
1976 Β· dir. John Carpenter
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.3thriller Β· action Β· crime

Los Angeles shapes both of them

The difference: 22 years apart, and the 1970s show

A highway patrol officer, two criminals, and a station secretary form an unlikely alliance to defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct against a siege by a bloodthirsty street gang.

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Transporter 3
2008 Β· dir. Olivier Megaton
πŸ… 40%β˜… 6.1action Β· thriller Β· crime

Both keep coming back to the same thing: action hero

Frank Martin puts the driving gloves on to deliver Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of a Ukrainian government official, from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea. En route, he has to contend with thugs who want to intercept Valentina's safe delivery and not let his personal feelings get in the way of his dangerous objective.

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Point Break
1991 Β· dir. Kathryn Bigelow
πŸ… 68%β˜… 7.3action Β· thriller Β· crime

Both land momentum and grit at once

In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. Believing that the members of the gang could be surfers, the F.B.I. sends young agent Johnny Utah to the beach undercover to mix with the surfers and gather information.

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The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil
2019 Β· dir. Lee Won-tae
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7action Β· crime Β· thriller

Both lean on tension more than on action

After barely surviving a brutal attack by a sadistic serial killer, crime boss Jang Dong-su is left humiliated. Determined to catch the killer known as K, he forms an uneasy alliance with Jung Tae-seok, a relentless and incorruptible detective who often disrupts his illegal business. However, while Jang Dong-su wants K dead, Jung Tae-suk is determined to bring him to justice. With a deal in placeβ€”whoever finds K first will decide his fateβ€”the hunt begins, blurring the lines between crime and law.

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Transporter 2
2005 Β· dir. Louis Leterrier
β˜… 6.3action Β· thriller Β· crime

Crime built on momentum, twice over

Professional driver, and former Special Forces officer, Frank Martin is living in Miami, where he is temporarily filling in for a friend as the chauffeur for a government narcotics control policy director and his family. The young boy in the family is targeted for kidnapping, and Frank immediately becomes involved in protecting the child and exposing the kidnappers.

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The Outlaws
2017 Β· dir. Kang Yun-sung
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.2action Β· crime Β· thriller

Gritty thriller, and it commits to that

In Chinatown, law and order is turned upside down when a trio of feral Chinese gangsters arrive, start terrorizing civilians, and usurping territory. The beleaguered local gangsters team up with the police, lead by the badass loose cannon Ma Seok-do, to bring them down. Based on a true story.

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Dhoom 2
2006 Β· dir. Sanjay Gadhvi
πŸ… 93%β˜… 6.6drama Β· action Β· thriller

Common ground: buddy cop

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Lethal Weapon 4 does

Jai and Ali return, this time on the trail of an international thief who steals priceless artifacts and has chosen Mumbai as his next target.

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Ong-Bak
2003 Β· dir. Prachya Pinkaew
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.1action Β· crime Β· thriller

Tense action in both cases

When the head of a statue sacred to a village is stolen, a young martial artist goes to the big city and finds himself taking on the underworld to retrieve it.

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