Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

2005 "Sex. Murder. Mystery. Welcome to the party."
7.5| 1h43m| R| en| More Info
Released: 21 October 2005 Released
Producted By: Warner Bros. Pictures
Country: United States of America
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Official Website: https://www.warnerbros.com/kiss-kiss-bang-bang
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A petty thief 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 and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming role...

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Mjeteconer Just perfect...
Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.
Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some
MusicChat It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.
Benedito Dias Rodrigues Palatable dark comedy with a couple top stars,and surviving from them,there so many holes,point-blank which reachs a dead end,but enjoyable and hurts when is funny literally speakiing.....contrived most of time could be better if the lead female role was played by some famous actress,but a nature of the movie is easy to like and don't cause any regret certanly...far away that!!ResumeFirst watch: 2018 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7
CinemaClown Oozing plenty of style in every frame, brimming with tongue-in-cheek humour from start to finish & narrated in a highly intriguing manner, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang marks a terrific start to Shane Black's directional career, is one of the finest examples of dark comedy and is also notable for featuring one of Robert Downey Jr.'s most charismatic performances.Set in Los Angeles, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang tells the story of a petty thief who after a robbery- gone-wrong stumbles into a film audition while fleeing from cops & is accepted for the role. But on his visit to LA, he soon finds himself caught up in a murder investigation and enlists the help of a private investigator as well as his childhood crush to get to the bottom of it.Written & directed by Shane Black, the most noticeable thing about Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is its razor-sharp dialogues which take over the screen from its opening moments. The rapid- fire narration can get a bit confusing for some viewers if they're unable to keep up with the pace but it all eventually comes full circle by the time the story reaches its final conclusion.Production design crew does a fine job in capturing the high-profile nightlife of Los Angeles, Cinematography makes dynamic use of camera plus the rich use of its colour palette makes the images appear more vivid. Editing is structured like a confusing mystery but provides a solid pace to the story, the clever use of humour is one of its strongest aspects & even the score does its job nicely.Coming to the performances, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang features a solid cast in Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer & Michelle Monaghan, and while the remaining cast contributes with properly balanced work, it's the spot-on chemistry between Downey Jr. & Kilmer that propels this sly flick to a new high, and is easily one of the most enjoyable & funniest roles in the career of both, to which they do complete justice.On an overall scale, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is an incredibly fun, throughly entertaining & very satisfying crime-comedy that's stylishly directed, smartly written, excellently photographed, expertly edited, briskly paced, sharply humoured & jubilantly performed. Definitely several grades above your typical murder-mysteries, especially in the manner its storyline unfolds, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is worth your time n money.
runamokprods This unfairly overlooked if sometimes uneven parody of detective and noir films (that has moments of feeling like a real thriller itself) is extremely well acted. It's no surprise that Robert Downey is a lot of snarky-but-lovable fun as a NYC small time thief brought out to L.A. to test for the lead in a film after a series of bizarre twists. What did catch me off guard was Val Kilmer matching Downey laugh for laugh and sharp edge for sharp edge as a gay Los Angeles private detective who takes Downey under his wing. The two make an improbable but very entertaining pair. It's also nice that writer/director Shane Black and actress Michelle Monaghan make something a little more fun and complicated of 'the girl' than simply someone who looks good while waiting for Downey to get busy and kiss her. The plot of the mystery itself has got a number of gaping holes and silly coincidences, and it lacks a real of feeling of danger, but the film has a breezy charm and quick witted inventive intelligence that just about renders the fact that the detective story doesn't really work a moot point.
seymourblack-1 This exhilarating high-speed comedy thriller is full of fun, action and excitement and contains a lot of quick-fire dialogue that's cool, sharp and extremely witty. Its complicated plot about an investigation into a murder mystery is typical of those featured in numerous classic film noirs but its overall style is also very contemporary. The juxtaposition of these two styles and the elements of parody and pastiche that are evident throughout, make this a very postmodern offering and a fascinating homage to the hardboiled detective stories that were so popular in the 1940s.Writer/director Shane Black clearly drew much of his inspiration from Raymond Chandler as he named the four chapters and the epilogue of "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" after well known Philip Marlowe stories and constructed a plot which was very Chandler-esque, as it's labyrinthine in nature and also features an investigation of two seemingly unrelated cases which subsequently prove to be linked to each other The obligatory narration is predictably clever, sarcastic and funny but also contains more updated aspects, such as a tendency to speak directly to the audience and a disarmingly amateurish quality which manifests when information is imparted out of sequence and freeze frames and rewinds have to be used to clarify what's being said.Harry Lockhart (Robert Downey Jr.) is a small-time New York City thief who goes on the run from the cops after one of his robberies goes wrong and then escapes his pursuers by hiding in a building where auditions for a detective movie are in progress. Much to his surprise, Harry passes the audition and is flown to Hollywood to prepare for his movie role by shadowing a gay private investigator called Perry van Strike a.k.a. Gay Perry (Val Kilmer). At a party held by a wealthy entrepreneur called Harlan Dexter (Corbin Bernsen), Harry meets his childhood friend Harmony Faith Lane (Michelle Monaghan) a girl who used to confide in him a great deal but frustratingly, never showed any romantic interest in him. Her attempts to make it as an actress had not been very successful to date and her greatest achievement so far was a brief appearance in a corny commercial.Harry and Perry are on a stakeout one night when they see a car being propelled into a lake and then manage to pull the dead body of a young woman from the wreckage. Later, Harmony tells Harry that her younger sister (Jenna) has been found dead and asks him to investigate the circumstances of her death. "The Lady In The Lake" is later identified as Harlan Dexter's daughter Veronica and a tenuous link between her and Harmony's "Little Sister" becomes apparent as one of Harmony's credit cards (which had been stolen by Jenna) had been used to hire Perry to be at the lake.After a complicated investigation that exposes Harry and Perry to great danger and leads them to a psychiatric clinic owned by Harlan Dexter, it becomes clear that Veronica's murder was connected with a feud over an inheritance and that Jenna's tragic death had been brought about in a totally different way.Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer make Harry and Perry's unconventional partnership one of the highlights of the movie and their banter is just brilliant. Michelle Monaghan also impresses with her ability to mix her character's comic side so successfully with her more mysterious qualities. Just like Marlowe, Harry gets beaten up regularly and is even tortured but is also quite modest as he recognises that he's a useless thief and readily admits to being a terrible narrator."Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" is tremendously entertaining, hilarious and criminally underrated and hopefully, in the long term will achieve the level of recognition that it so richly deserves.