A brief moment in time.

When your clock stops, who do you call?

The talking clock of course!

Have you ever wondered whose job it is to sit by the phone and the recite the time, day in and day out?

A comedy about a job that takes time to learn.

Martin Riggs (Gibson) and Roger Murtagh (Glover) check out of the retirement home for yet another instalment of one of the better pedigreed action series in Hollywood. This time round Riggs and Murtagh get caught up in a murder investigation involving illegal immigrants. But Chinese gangster Wah Sing Ku (Jet Li) is directing the gang responsible for the murders, so the two detectives are in big trouble. In the mean time, Riggs is about to become a father and is struggling with commitment. And Murtagh's daughter is dating Lee Butters (Rock), another policeman, without his knowledge.

The real strength of this film is in the performance of martial arts star Jet Li, who has a superbly menacing role as the shadowy gangster directing events. He has several action scenes to show off his abilities, and they are used to good effect. Gibson and Glover are, as they say several times, 'getting too old for this shit'. Still, you get the impression that they'll still be doing Lethal Weapon movies when they're in wheel chairs. As with most Lethal Weapon movies, a little more attention is paid to plot than is usual for this genre (in this case, mostly to the subplots involving the detectives' significant others). Some of this is just distracting chaff, but they do make the people involved seem a little more human than the average action movie heroes. And Rene Russo has some nice turns as the girlfriend who can take care of herself. There are perhaps too many subplots - two in particular (the corruption story, and the promotions) go absolutely nowhere. But worth a watch all the same.