It’s a vibrant, kicky, and thoroughly entertaining slice of the bad life that never quite takes itself seriously enough to be considered a classic (there are echoes of Tarantino here, but who is echoing whom is never quite as obvious as you’d like it to be), but nonetheless deserves to be seen by both the film noir cognoscenti and the midnight marquee crowd. It’s heavy on the narration, but as the tale of second-rate, NYC sneak thief Harry Lockhart (Downey Jr.) and his wild Hollywood relocation, how could it not be? Black’s love of self-reflexive, genre-skewering conventions drenches the film in blood reds and Sunset Strip purples and drops a wink and a grin while doing it, over and over, making Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang the sort of in-jokey affair film geeks lust after but so rarely receive. It’s also a doozy of a comedy, matching the dark wit of Ross MacDonald’s Lew Archer novels to the stylized theatrics of Matt Helm-era Dean Martin. noir that blazes through its running time, a genre-busting blitzkrieg attack on Hollywood pretentiousness that’s just as full of it as the pulp paperbacks and their myriad filmic offshoots that it lampoons.
In a voice-over, lead character says that he is "wetter than Drew Barrymore at a grunge club." Overall, the stylized cynicism and unrelenting violence and profanity make this a movie for older teens and adults only.Blammo! The directorial debut of screenwriter Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, The Long Kiss Goodnight) is a suckerpunch-and-a-half, a trippy tribute to L.A. One of the other lead characters makes many dry-humored cracks about being gay, but other characters also make similar jokes. Some drinking and cigarette smoking the character who has his index finger severed is shown in the next scene to be high on Demerol. He's later tortured by bad guys, shown screaming in excruciating pain while getting electric shocks to his testicles.
Lead character has his index finger severed. Language includes "f-k," "c-t," and "p-sy." While the movie addresses the sexual abuse of the lead characters and her sister, there is also a scene in which Downey Jr.'s character, even after knowing what the lead character/love interest/crush from his teen years went through, speaks disparagingly about women in Los Angeles and how they've all been sexually abused and that's why they act the way they do. There's frequent violence and profanity in this post-modernist take on noir films. plays a NYC thief who, through a bizarre twist of fate, ends up in LA and must solve a murder. Parents need to know that Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a 2005 action movie in which Robert Downey Jr.
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