Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Dir: Shane Black 2005
I have realized that there are certain movies that I just
have to watch during certain months. October is home to both good and bad
horror films, Good Will Hunting is a requirement for November, and now that it
is December I couldn’t wait to break out Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. This is a film
that works on a number of different levels: it’s extremely funny, it’s a solid
old-school detective styled story, and it has some great action scenes. Robert
Downey Jr. (RDJ from here on out) and Val Kilmer are the most absurd pairing
but they are both hilarious playing off of each other. Plus who doesn’t love
movies set in L.A. at Christmas?
RDJ is the narrator as well as the main character and he
delivers some of the best “fourth-wall breaking” narration I’ve ever heard in
film. His character “Harry” was a two bit thief in New York City who found
himself in a film audition whilst running away from the police. The film
producers are impressed with his performance and they fly him out to L.A. for
the fast track experience. In L.A. Harry has to take “detective lesson” from
Gay Perry (Val Kilmer in possibly his most convincing performance) a private
investigator. As luck would have it Harry finds himself in the middle of a real
case involving everything from missing persons, to homicide and everything in
between. It is up to Harry to put all the pieces together in time and solve the
case.
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