In real life, Riggs would have struck Jet-Li upward at the base of the skull just above C2 and likely would have killed him, particularly with the mass of the Beretta receiver behind the strike. A split second after disarming Riggs (and leaving him with a pound or 2 of receiver in his hand), he TURNS HIS BACK TO RIGGS to take on Murtaugh.Ī screenwriter who needed all the characters to survive would have had Riggs hit Jet-Li over the head with the butt of the Beretta and taken it from there. This is where the weapon disassembly scene falls apart. Jet-Li breaks the standoff with the maneuver in question, disarming Riggs. Although the angles are tough to judge, it seems that while Jet-Li was outnumbered neither Riggs nor Murtaugh could fire without risk of hitting each other with rounds that - at 3 feet - would pass through Jet-Li. If Ian had showed a longer clip from the film to put the move in context, you would have seen Jet-Li, Riggs and Murtaugh, all armed, in a circular stand-off. He would not have left Riggs with half a gun, itself a lethal weapon. If the Jet-Li character could grab Rigg’s weapon at all, he would have conventionally disarmed him by wrenching Rigg’s wrist counter-clockwise. Usually a frame-by-frame analysis is sufficient to reveal such tricks, but if you have to analyze the move in hundreths of a second - the case here - you really can’t tell.īut you’re right. He’s probably correct, although after watching his video I went back and reviewed the scene repeatedly and could not confirm the disassembly lever was down. ![]() Ian says the disassembly lever was already down and the recoil spring probably removed prior to shooting. Martin Riggs uses degraded (for story purposes) Krav Maga supplemented with some Systema techniques that he would have been taught at Camp Perry given his spec ops history in Operation Phoenix and his (implausible) work as a sniper in Laos as described in the first film in the series. Jet-Li is not using Mixed Martial Arts he’s using a Thai martial art refined for close-quarter military use in China. ![]() Thus I was very interested in Ian’s analysis. The Jet-Li maneuver in Lethal Weapon 4 caught my attention. I’ve always loved the Lethal Weapon franchise and its action/comedy sub-genre (although I write action late-20th Century historical fiction - stories based on actual events, typically events the government doesn’t want folks to know about - so I strive for realism). I’m a feature film screenwriter always looking for new ideas.
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