Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (DVD)

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

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

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

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

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