Movie Review: The Nice Guys (2016)

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Like most of the movies I review on here, I have anticipating this one greatly. For anyone who doesn’t know, some of director Shane Black’s previous films include Iron Man 3, and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. The latter of those films being another buddy comedy, and as I actually just found out he wrote the script for the first Lethal Weapon film. So this is clearly a type of film that he’s experienced with, but does his way of doing it still hold up in the modern era? Let’s find out together shall we?

Plot Summary - In 1977 Los Angeles, Private-Eye Holland March (Ryan Gosling) must join forces with Enforcer Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) to solve the case of a missing girl named Amelia (Margaret Qualley). But what starts off simple, quickly devolves into a case more complicated than it seems.

Pros - What grabbed me first was the music, as the film has (obviously) a killer 70’s inspired soundtrack. The cast is great too, especially the chemistry between the leads. The play off of each other perfectly, especially since the script is really well written. The comedy and the timing are all on point, and the mystery itself actually evolves really well as you start going deeper into it. There’s also a few good dramatic moments thrown in as well, as we get to learn quite a lot about everyone involved. The look of the film also captures the bizarreness of the seventies quite well too. The action and chase scenes are also quite interesting and varied as well.

Cons - The film does have a couple of cliche moments, as well as maybe one or two jokes that fall a bit flat. Also, if you’re not expecting the dramatic moments they might throw you off just a touch at first.

Final Score - 10/10

I debated giving it a 9, but truthfully because the story is so much deeper than I originally thought it was going to be I just figured screw it full monty.

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