Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang Movie Review 2005

Making his directorial debut, Black--the screenwriter responsible for such awesome cinematic machismo as "Lethal Weapon" and "Last Boy Scout"--reinvents crime noir with this hilarious riff on hardboiled detective fiction and vapid LA culture. Harry Lockhart (Downey Jr.) is a two-bit thief who stumbles into an acting audition after a robbery gone wrong. The producers fly him to Hollywood where he takes private eye lessons from a gay PI named Perry (Kilmer) and gets embroiled in a complicated conspiracy involving a dead body and a femme fatale from his past (Monaghan). Kilmer and Downey have never been funnier, thanks to Black's sharp-as-a-laser dialogue, and Monaghan is insanely easy on the eyes. Sam Spade never had it this good.

Distribution

Not Yet Released

Running time 103 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Action-Comedy, L.A., Private Eyes, Gays, Comedy Mystery, Action-Thriller, Black Comedy

Screenplay

Shane Black

Cast

Robert Downey, Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan, Corbin Bernsen, Dash Mihok, Larry Miller, Shannyn Sossamon, Angela Lindvall, Rockmond Dunbar

Cinematography

Michael Barrett

Director

Shane Black

Music

John Ottman

Other

Stephen A. Tibbo, Randall Poster, Jim Page, Erin Cochran, Christopher J. Kristoff, Aaron Osborne

Producer

Joel Silver, Silver Pictures, Warner Bros.