Dragged Across Concrete's Mel Gibson character plays into all the actor's worst controversies, a move that Lethal Weapon 5 cannot afford to repeat.
The controversial Dragged Across Concrete proves that Lethal Weapon 5 could struggle to overcome its star's public persona. Dragged Across Concrete has recently proven a hit on Netflix, but the slow-burn cop thriller was not such an unqualified success upon its original 2019 release. While Dragged Across Concrete’s deliberate pacing and nightmarish atmosphere won the movie its fair share of admirers, like director S.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Dragged Across Concrete was extremely controversial both for its content and for Mel Gibson's starring role in the movie. Unlike even the darker original Lethal Weapon, which was pretty far removed from the reality of policing, Dragged Across Concrete is an unrelenting celebration of fictional "maverick" cops whose flaws are only accentuated by Gibson’s real-world controversies.
In contrast, Lethal Weapon 5, with its sunny blockbuster tone, will have to either ignore Gibson’s issues or fundamentally change what the franchise feels like. This Catch-22 arguably has no positive outcome, with either approach potentially damaging the franchise's legacy and future. As such, a movie like Dragged Across Concrete accentuating Gibson's flaws is bad news for Lethal Weapon.
How Dragged Across Concrete Doesn't Help Mel Gibson Gibson’s history of misogynistic, racist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic comments align pretty closely with his Dragged Across Concrete character Detective Brett Ridgeman’s dim view of human rights.
Thanks to his history of violently threatening romantics partners, insulting the LGBTQ+ community, and using racial slurs, Gibson has unintentionally become a poster child for problems associated with policing. While sitcoms like Brooklyn Nine Nine can ignore these issues and Dragged Across Concrete could create a reactionary alternate reality where Gibson’s worst real-life attributes were justified in his character, the Lethal Weapon franchise is stuck.
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