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Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

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Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

Robert Downey Jr., Shannyn Sossamon, Val Kilmer, Corbin Bernsen, Mary Castro

A petty thief (Downey) posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl (Monaghan) ...( read more  read more... )and a detective (Kilmer) who's been training him for his upcoming role.

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  • SarahG1988
    December 8, 2009
    SarahG1988
    This is hilarious stuff. One of the best scripts that I've seen in a comedy for a while with some of the best dialogue too. Val Kilmer and Downy Jr are a great double act and both just hilarious. I loved the film-noir type feel to the film, which set it up to be one of the best b...( read more)lack comedies I've seen from this decade.

    Highly recomended
  • organgrinder136
    September 24, 2009
    organgrinder136
    well thought out script with some excellent quotes. tries to be like one of those old film noir thrillers and succeeds. mary castro, val kilmer and robert downey jr. all make an excellent partnership. well done to shane black for his directorial debut. he's usually a writer. he a...( read more)lso wrote the last boy scout as well as the lethal weapon series which i guess accounts for the humour. also an excellent climax. not one to miss!
  • DrZeek
    September 13, 2009
    DrZeek
    Harry: I peed on the corpse. Can they do, like, and ID from that?
    Perry: I'm sorry, you peed on...?
    Harry: On the corpse. My question is...
    Perry: No, my question. I get to go first. Why in plu-perfect hell would you pee on corpse?

    A very funny murder mystery mixed with...( read more) the setup of a buddy action flick. Shot with lots of style to feel akin to a neo noir, with classy yet modern soundtrack that's fitting.

    As much fun as the story is, the film survives through its dialog, the majority of which plays like a large inside joke, but it can still be hilarious with the right viewers, namely those who enjoy witty sarcasm and smart ass back talk.

    Mr. Frying Pan: Well now, here we all are. Ike, Mike and Mustard.
    Harry: What the hell does that mean?
    Mr. Fire: You know, I'm with him on this one man, that's pretty fuckin' obscure.
    Mr. Frying Pan: Horse shit, I hear that all the time.
    Mr. Fire: You do?
    Mr. Frying Pan: Yeah, sure.
    Mr. Fire: Where, at the 1942 club?

    The story revolves around a thief posing as an actor, who gets involved in the Hollywood life where he meets a private investigator, his former dream girl, and some seedy characters who all become involved in a pulpish crime mystery.

    Robert Downey Jr. as a thief/actor and Val Kilmer as a tough, gay guy have great chemistry together, and work as if they need a whole detective film series. Downey's narration throughout is also great with all the sarcastic beats to play to.

    Harry: [narrating] Anyway, by now you may wonder how I wound up here. Or, maybe not. Maybe you wonder how silly putty picks shit up from comic books. The point is, I don't see another Goddamn narrator, so pipe down.

    Further hilarity ensues due to how dark the comedy is, body parts are severed and misunderstandings of deaths come aplenty, making things all the merrier.

    Michelle Monaghan, as the femme fatal of the piece, is able to keep up with the leads, and is also very cute with some edge to her character making things all the better.

    Harmony: Well, for starters, she's been fucked more times than she's had a hot meal.
    Harry: Yeah, I heard about that. It was neck-and-neck and then she skipped lunch.

    The plot moves and twists around, but paying attention you can see a lot of it come through and still realize how hilariously dark this movie is. It's self aware nature mixed with the hilarious treatment of the buddy comedy aspect make this into a continually great movie to enjoy.

    B-Movie Actress: So what do you do for a living?
    Harry: Uh, I'm retired. I invented dice when I was a kid. How about you do?

    Every time someone spots this on my DVD rack and wonders what it is, I say we must watch it, and they end up enjoying it a lot. It is an underseen movie that deserves as big an audience as it can get.

    Harry: Is she dead?
    Perry: No, she's just resting her eyes for a minute. Of course she's fucking dead, her neck's broken.
  • SirPant
    September 3, 2009
    SirPant
    A Fast paced dark comedy, Downey Jr & Kilmer work really well together. A refreshing return from Mr Shane Black!
  • lewiskendell
    June 12, 2009
    lewiskendell
    This movie was not at all what I anticipated. The actors who were in it, the movie description, hell even the dvd case art led me to expect something completely different. What I actually ended up seeing was a weird combination that was odd and slightly amusing at the same time.
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    My main problem was that Downey's narration just seemed so incredibly forced. The dialogue was supposed to be hip and catchy, but it just so unlike anything that actual people would say. It wasn't cool or interesting in a Tarantino kind of way, it was just distracting.

    I thought that the plot was needlessly convoluted. I actually thought that the movie was over twice before the actual ending came, and I think my score would have been higher if the movie would have actually ended at one of those earlier points. I get what Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang was trying to do, but I don't think that the movie came anywhere close to being the entertaining film that it could have been.
  • KESSLER72
    January 5, 2010
    KESSLER72
    its passable i guess....mainly due to Val Kilmer's role as a gay private investigator. Annoying as hell in parts. Barely a two star rating.
  • Phonex
    January 2, 2010
    Phonex
    No more than 2 stars. Over boring. Full artificial act, nothing sincere. It must be made for traning of film school kids.
  • Pinky121
    December 11, 2009
    Pinky121
    2 thumbs for this cool, smart, quirky film noir and minus 1 finger for the awesome double act, Robert Downey Jr and Val Kilmer and their sarcastic dialogue... everything about this film works. Loved it!
  • F0XyF0x
    December 10, 2009
    F0XyF0x
    I didn't enjoy this.
  • larkart
    December 7, 2009
    larkart
    Good Noir! Quirky and funny.
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