Same goes for the original Lethal Weapon, a terrific action-thriller that’s not as funny as you might remember. It’s not a comedy in the way so many buddy-comedies later would be. Likewise, 48 Hrs., often hailed as the birth of the buddy-comedy, is really more of a drama/thriller highlighted by Eddie Murphy ’s inspired riffing. Die Hard is full of wry Bruce Willis punchlines, but I think most reasonable people wouldn’t classify that film as a comedy.
That may sound ridiculously obvious, but what I mean is that, for my list-making purposes, it can’t be an action movie that just so happens to be funny as well. There’s no hard-and-fast definition of an action-comedy, but here was what I used: It has to be an action movie that’s also meant to be a comedy. But to select the 40 best action-comedies, I had to nail down the specifics of the genre, which meant figuring out what counts and, more importantly, what doesn’t.
Maybe it features some ordinary, smartass dudes who stumble into some extraordinarily crazy situation. Maybe it’s about two cops - their personalities stunningly different - who have to work together to take down some crooks. If you describe a film as an action-comedy, most people will have an idea of what you’re talking about.
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