Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373469/



I have no idea what made me watch this movie. I never heard anything about it, never saw a trailer for it, did not know who acted in it, did not know who directed it, nothing. I went in absolutely blind.

And you know what? I almost turned it off about 3 times. The first half of the movie is so incredibly slow and boring that I paused it three times and pondered if I should turn it off. But there were only 2 things keeping me watching it.

1. Robert Downey Jr.
2. Val Kilmer playing a gay man, no joke.

If it was not for these 2 facts I would have shut off the film after about 20 minutes. But you know what? After the first half of the movie it actually gets good. Like REALLY good. It just had one of the slowest, if not the slowest beginning I have ever seen in a movie. I am actually glad that I did not turn it off.

Basically it’s the story of a thief who turned into an actor (awesome how it actually happened) who went to LA and somehow got himself stuck in the midst of murder after murder and he if let to solve it with the help of his agent, Val Kilmer, and Michelle Monaghan to try and figure it out on their own.

Well the best/funny thing is that as they try to figure it out, bodies that they dispose of keep on coming back, and others start poping up. I actually lost count of how many bodies were actually in the film. Fantastic.

There is also a subplot with Downey and Monaghan. See they were childhood friends, but to Downey’s character that was the one who got away. So he is trying to express his love to her in the midst of this insanity and most of the time it just bounces off. But it actually goes together with the killing more than you would think so.

Plus there is a scene where Kilmer and Downey kiss to avoid the attention of the cops, so that weird out moment was awkward to say the least, but Kilmer played such a good gay guy it makes me wonder.

All in all it was the slowest beginning I have ever seen in my life. If you can sit through that than it is well worth the payoff.

Base Score = 5
+1 for Robert Downey Jr.
+1 for Val Kilmer playing an incredibly believable gay guy
-2 for being the slowest beginning that I almost turned off the movie 3 times
+1 for tons of dead bodies
=6/10

Last updated: 2010-01-21 13:15:51 by Tolll