Ignoring his roles:

The original Mad Max trilogy, which featured just humans being fucking terrible in general and excelling at it.

Gallipoli which actually felt hard hitting even if it softened a lot of what happened there, displaying a softened view while hinting at more of what those men went through

Lethal Weapon, as you mentioned, showing that men can experience suicidal depression and eventually over the course of several years/movies recover

Directed Apocalypto - An (admittedly highly fantisised) movie about how a culture is equally if not more shitty to it's own people, and ends on the foreign europeans just appearing.

In 2021 that's a more respectable resume than 99% of anyone who even looks at California, drunken rants and all.

Not to mention all of the work he's done towards men health behind the scenes. Despite him being contractually obliged to suck the woke fem-dick, Robert Downey JR Credits Mel as his biggest influence getting clean and back on track

Ignoring his roles:

The original Mad Max trilogy, which featured just humans being fucking terrible in general and excelling at it.

Gallipoli which actually felt hard hitting even if it softened a lot of what happened there, displaying a softened view while hinting at more of what those men went through

Lethal Weapon, as you mentioned, showing that men can experience suicidal depression and eventually over the course of several years/movies recover

Directed Apocalypto - An (admittedly highly fantisised) movie about how a culture is equally if not more shitty to it's own people, and ends on the foreign europeans just appearing.

In 2021 that's a more respectable resume than 99% of anyone who even looks at California, drunken rants and all.