There’s a nice sense of justice here, too – that the guy who practically sired the modern buddy picture two decades ago should give the genre its freshest treatment in years. “Kiss Kiss” is such a delightful bombardment, we barely notice that Black’s convoluted, serpentine plot doesn’t make a lick of sense. Like Fred MacMurray in “Double Indemnity”: “Baby” this and “baby” that. Kirk Warren, a former spy, is to be executed because he tried to steal a million dollars. With Giuliano Gemma, Jorge Martn, Lorella De Luca, Nieves Navarro. Noir characters are supposed to talk funny. Kiss Kiss - Bang Bang: Directed by Duccio Tessari.
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Everyone is Riggs in this movie: addled and frantic, waged in desperate contests to spit out apt metaphors and movie allusions, like baseball players perched on the steps of a dugout, hawking sunflower seeds.
If Downey is the movie’s Riggs (Mel Gibson’s insane cop in “Lethal Weapon”), Kilmer is … another Riggs.
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Midway through, Harry makes a crack about a “native American Joe Pesci” that makes me want to wet my pants. Then he witnesses a murder linked to Harmony’s dead sister, linked to a shady producer (Corbin Bernsen), linked to some “Chinatown”-inspired luridness best left under the rose.Īs the star and narrator, Downey is good doing his thing. Then he runs into childhood crush Harmony Lane (Michelle Monaghan from “North Country”), now a struggling B-movie actress. And then the fun begins.įirst, Harry – a lippy kind of guy good with his wits, not his fists – gets paired up with gay private eye Perry Van Shrike (Val Kilmer) to do research for the role. In one of those art-becomes-life mix-ups that used to be Mel Brooks’ shtick, Harry is mistaken for an actor and whisked to L.A. plays the hero, lovable New York crook Harry Lockhart (he steals toys for his nephew … how’s that for lovable?). The way I reckon, Black is going for something different here: Tinseltown-insider intrigue (think Robert Altman’s “The Player”) meets the mean streets chatter of a pulpy paperback detective novel meets “The Naked Gun.” Robert Downey Jr. (Not to study the Bible, if my sources are correct.) He’s the kid who penned “Lethal Weapon” back in the ’80s, made mountains of scratch in the ’90s, and promptly went into Hollywood hibernation for eight years. Today’s assignment: “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang,” an innovative film noir spoof that a more sentimental man might say was “satisfyingly zany” and “cocked and loaded for laughs.” Shane Black wrote and directed it. Once, there was even a transsexual rock opera starring a lady with an Adam’s apple: “Hedlamp and the …” something, something.ĭrat. Just know that your humble narrator has been sweating this beat since Monica-gate, and he’s seen it all: good movies, bad movies, movies about men who play dodge ball and girls who ride whales.
The name … well, the name’s not important. The brothers lyrics and sound matured even more on 2019s Neotheater and the 2020 single Bang blending lyrics about.
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