Written by James M. Tate / 4/01/2016 / No comments / action , genre tarantino , michael beck , michelle monaghan , quentin tarantino , quirky , robert downey jr. , shane black , team-up , val kilmer
NEUROTIC REACTION TO KISS KISS BANG BANG
Review of KISS KISS BANG BANG with the eclectic team-up of Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer |
Kilmer and Downey bond |
Well now, since 2005, Downey's King of the World as the sarcastic Marvel icon IRON MAN (following every superhero being plagued by Tony Starkasm); Kilmer's been missing, basically since his role as Porn Star Batman; screenwriter and director Shane Black, who created the LETHAL WEAPON series under Richard Donner's direction and Mel Gibson making no one think of anyone else, directed IRON MAN 3 with Downey and is about to reboot a movie where he was basically, before there was a Quentin Tarantino, Quentin Tarantino: remember the film geek in the original PREDATOR? Well that's Shane Black... the actor...
The Ingenue |
Val Kilmer |
Remarkably, what makes KISS KISS BANG BANG so good is that with all the intentionally convoluted Film Noir red herring plot-lines and snappy dialogue; super-quick entrances and exits along with twists and turns around each and every heated corner, the vehicle still makes complete sense while you're watching, playing out as if you were thinking it up while it goes... there's a word for that but it's what those old novels, dating back to Edgar Rice Burroughs, had going for them and here, Shane nails it along with the real team-up of Downey's Harry Lockhart, completely out of his league in Los Angeles from being a small time New York wannabe hood to finding himself knee-deep in Hollywood party life exploitation and, thank god for Val Kilmer as gay detective, Gay Perry...
Val Kilmer |
RATING: ****
TRIVIA: Funny thing, but a campy musical was watched and reviewed and worshipped by yours truly the same day re-watching (after having breezed through it on cable years ago) this movie, and, WARRIORS lead Michael Beck is mentioned (and seen on TV) being cast in one of many movies-within-the-movie, PLAYER style, but Kilmer's Perry instead refers to Beck as the star of XANADU (while in that review, readable if you CLICK HERE, Beck's mentioned as resembling Kilmer a bit; think it's the nose)... And speaking of Kilmer, and as the Michael Mann melodrama HEAT was mentioned in the review, every movie fanatic's favorite crime film but yours truly, HEAT, co-stars Val in his prime.
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