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Description: Genre: Action & Adventure / Theatrical Release: 2005 / Director: Shane Black / Actors: Robert Downey Jr., Michelle ... more
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (DVD) ... Monaghan ... / DVD released 13 March, 2006 at Warner Home Video / Features of the DVD: PAL, Widescreen / With smart scribe Shane Black both penning the script and behind the camera, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang was never going to be ordinary. Yet it’s far better than you could have hoped for, marrying in comedy, action, a bit of a detective work and a constant, knowing wink to the audience. Cruelly underperforming at the box office, the film finds Robert Downey Jr as a small time thief, who quite literally finds himself stumbling into the world of acting. With a potential role as a private detective in the offing, his agent arranges for him to spend his time with private investigator Val Kilmer. All is fairly light, until a dead body crosses their paths and a genuine mystery presents itself. And that then sets the scene for a pacey, energetic film spearheaded by a trio of strong performances. The main plaudits should go to the interplay between Kilmer and Downey Jr, who both eat up their respective best roles in years. Meeting them head on though is Michelle Monaghan, who plays a wannabe actress with a talent for fast talking, and looks that Downey Jr’s Harry can’t help but resist. Now it’s fair to argue that the setup itself doesn’t feel particularly fresh. Yet the execution most certainly is, with Black savvy enough to know when to avoid the genre clichés, and when to drive his script right through the middle of them with a great big grin on his face. Grounded by a splendidly witty narration from Downey Jr, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is, at the point this review is being written, an underappreciated gem. Hopefully time, and DVD, will see it right.--Simon Brew

Newest Review: ... of those. Where had Val Kilmer been since Top Gun? He was the Ice Man. He wore those mirrored aviators marvellously. He lived ... more

 ... up to his name of being ice cool and yet he disappeared into obscurity. ( I exclude the cameo in True Romance. As lets face it - you didn't even get to see his face). Batman Forever was mediocre despite its top cast, Alexander was pretty pony, The Saint was ok but not spectaculor. Maybe it was Top Gun's final "you can be my wingman" cheesy dialogue - it would knock most people's career. Actually I've just thought he was in Heat. Which was pretty decent. I think I may have blown my theory. Can we ignore ...more

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Premium Review Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (DVD): Not just your average girl from L.A. (1085 words)
by - written on 16/04/08 (Very useful, 113 readings)
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Harry Lockhart is one of life's nice guys, but he can't ever finish anything that he starts, including school and his marriage. When he meets Harmony Lane in L.A., years after they both attended high school, he finds something that he finally wants to see through to the end. They both bump into each other at the same party in L.A. There's only one question to answer: Why does everybody keep dying? The start to this movie is terrific and pulls you straight in. You see Harry as a young magician and a young Harmony is his apprentice in a box; about to be sawn in half by a chainsaw. Harmony screams as it goes through and all the adults go crazy! Once the ...  Read the complete review

sunmeilan
Premium Review Modern film noir? (889 words)
by - written on 15/02/08 (Very useful, 109 readings)
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Harry Lockhart is a thief and lucky man. On a job with his friend, his friend gets shot and Harry is chased by the police, but manages to avoid them and, by some fluke, ends up being interviewed for a part in a film. He impresses the casting people so much that they send him to Los Angeles for a screen test, whereupon he immediately stumbles across a murder. Along with childhood friend, Harmony, and a private detective, Perry, he tries to work out who the murderer is. But will he be able to do so without being killed himself? Or indeed without losing his fingers? Harry Lockhart is played by Robert Downey Junior. Whereas I know his name very well (who doesn't, ...  Read the complete review

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Premium Review Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (DVD): Kiss and tell your friends about this (526 words)
by - written on 20/01/08 (Very useful, 75 readings)
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Director: Shane Black (Lethal Weapon series) Starring: Robert Downey Jr (Zodiac, Good Night and Good Luck) Val Kilmer (Batman Forever, The Saint) Michelle Monaghan (The Bourne Supremacy, Mission Impossible 3) Production Year: 2005 Running Time: 103 minutes Certificate: 15 DVD Extras: None Cost: Play.com - £4.99 Plot overview: This is very complicated so try and keep up. Harry (Downey Jr) is a thief, who accidentally ends up being taken to Hollywood after his partner is killed and when escaping stumbles into an audition. He is swept off to LA to ...  Read the complete review

plipplop
Crowned Review When Harry Met Perry (1213 words)
by - written on 06/05/06 (Very useful, 152 readings)
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When small-time thief Harry Lockhart has to flee the scene of a crime, he takes refuge in what he believes to be an abandoned warehouse, only to find that film auditions are taking place inside. Somehow managing to convince the panel that he has what it takes, he finds himself propelled into the world of show business parties, where he is introduced to a private investigator called Gay Perry (for self-explanatory reasons) and a budding actress named Harmony. Harry and Harmony later get chatting in a bar, where, in spite of Harmony’s over protective best friend, they become close. Harry can hardly believe his luck. It all seemed so simple – until he ends up in ...  Read the complete review

Lichfield1979
Crowned Review Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (DVD): Entertaining detective spoof in the style of The Big Lebowsk ... (865 words)
by - written on 04/08/08 (Very useful, 38 readings)
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The movie Kiss Kiss Bang Bang wears its love of hard boiled detective schlock on its sleeve, poking fun at the lumpen vernacular of the hack imitators of the genre's twin giant totems, Chandler and Hammett, and occupying the territory of neo-noir spoof instead of the more serious terrain of LA Confidential or Chinatown, keeping a violently comic dark edge but tracing its most recent lineage back through various enjoyable movies such as Get Shorty, Adaptation, The Big Lebowski, True Romance, The Long Goodbye, and Lethal Weapon. The equally excellent Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer bumble their way through a foggy conspiracy of murder and mistaken identity in ...  Read the complete review

 
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