Kiss Bang Bang' was written and directed by one-time Hollywood wunderkind Shaneīlack, and when I say it may sound like an early work by a dangerously young In real-life, the rules of the game are never quite as easy as they seem on Teaming up with private detective "Gay" Perry (Val Kilmer, lettingĮvery line drip off his tongue like honey), this mismatched pair will find that Into a complex mystery as sordid as any classic pulp fiction by Raymond Chandler. Up on the scene, hoping to land her big break as an actress, Harry is thrust In the thankless role of Tom Cruise's girlfriend in 'M:I 3') suddenly shows Lane (Michelle Monaghan, here making much more of an impression than she did
But when his high school sweetheart Harmony Faith Jr., in another pitch-perfect comic performance) is a small-time hood who, afterĪ botched job lands finds him in an audition for a big movie, unexpectedly finds Spin a la a third-rate 'The Player.' Harry Lockhart (Robert Downey You Find Them" by Brett Halliday), but gives it a pretentious Hollywood-insider The plot reads on paper like it could have been one of those cringe-inducingįirst scripts by a film school graduate, the type that precociously borrowsįrom literary source material (in this case, the novel "Bodies Are Where That I'd dare say it is one of the most overlooked and criminally underrated Surprise when I was totally blind-sided by 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,' so much so In a traditional narrative-loving, non-ironic guy like myself. Guy who wrote 'The Last Boy Scout' - not exactly traits that inspire confidence Noir), loaded with self-congratulatory cinema references, too-hip-for-the-roomĬharacters, smug Tarantino-esque rat-a-tat-tat dialogue, and directed by the Of genres I don't usually care for (buddy-cop movie, hipster romance, faux-film
That I would, under normal circumstances, despise. 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang' has all the earmarks of a film
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