Perhaps that's the reason I liked 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang' so much - because it On Hollywood's boulevard of broken dreams. Solely for our contempt, just another parade of the walking wounded left stranded Rather, he has real empathy for these people who, inĪ less traveled screenwriter's hands, would instead be caricatures engineered Manages to leave a true resonance behind is because Black does not use his world-wearyĬynicism and life-imitating-art-imitating-life plotting to erect a wall between In what has to be the world's first autobiographical postmodernįilm noir satire of Hollywood hackdom, I think the reason 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang' Is, in large part, what gives the film a genuine emotional heft its arch-irony Now, all of a sudden, he's back from the brink - and his mysterious disappearance Interview he gave to Movie City News on the eve of 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang's (For more on the Shane Black story, read this revealing Traveling cross-country in a beat-up Chevy on months-long road trips in a questįor spiritual renewal. The next six years he wrote nary a single line of dialogue, instead reportedly In 1999 he literally vanished off the face of the Hollywood-centric Earth. Hero' and 'The Long Kiss Goodnight,' But then Black staged what has become knownĪs the industry's greatest disappearing act second only to Dave Chappelle, when Subsequently toiling for years as a uber-successfulīut critically derided Hollywood player, he churned out script after scriptįor such arguably soulless hits as the 'Lethal Weapon' sequels, 'The Last Action Screenwriter, it's true - the concept had been a passion project of Black evenīefore he sold his first script back in 1986 (a little film you may have heard ofĬalled 'Lethal Weapon').
Kiss Bang Bang' was written and directed by one-time Hollywood wunderkind Shaneīlack, and when I say it may sound like an early work by a dangerously young In real-life, the rules of the game are never quite as easy as they seem on Teaming up with private detective "Gay" Perry (Val Kilmer, lettingĮvery line drip off his tongue like honey), this mismatched pair will find that Into a complex mystery as sordid as any classic pulp fiction by Raymond Chandler. Up on the scene, hoping to land her big break as an actress, Harry is thrust In the thankless role of Tom Cruise's girlfriend in 'M:I 3') suddenly shows
Lane (Michelle Monaghan, here making much more of an impression than she did But when his high school sweetheart Harmony Faith Jr., in another pitch-perfect comic performance) is a small-time hood who, afterĪ botched job lands finds him in an audition for a big movie, unexpectedly finds Spin a la a third-rate 'The Player.' Harry Lockhart (Robert Downey You Find Them" by Brett Halliday), but gives it a pretentious Hollywood-insider The plot reads on paper like it could have been one of those cringe-inducingįirst scripts by a film school graduate, the type that precociously borrowsįrom literary source material (in this case, the novel "Bodies Are Where That I'd dare say it is one of the most overlooked and criminally underrated Surprise when I was totally blind-sided by 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,' so much so In a traditional narrative-loving, non-ironic guy like myself. Guy who wrote 'The Last Boy Scout' - not exactly traits that inspire confidence Noir), loaded with self-congratulatory cinema references, too-hip-for-the-roomĬharacters, smug Tarantino-esque rat-a-tat-tat dialogue, and directed by the Of genres I don't usually care for (buddy-cop movie, hipster romance, faux-film That I would, under normal circumstances, despise. 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang' has all the earmarks of a film
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