Let me start by letting you
in on the joke…The Nice Guys is a movie about two low class private detectives
who are anything but “nice”. The movie is set in the swinging 70’s and Russell
Crowe and Ryan Gosling play the two private eyes. They are unscrupulous bottom
feeders who’ll do almost anything to make a buck. Jackson Healy (Crowe) is an
enforcer who beats up and threatens people to make them leave someone alone and
Holland March (Gosling) is a crooked P.I. who’s living his life from the inside
of a bottle. These Guys aren’t nice.
However, they do try really
hard to do the right thing when they catch a case involving a murdered porn
star named Misty Mounds (Murielle Telio) and they both end up on the trail of a
girl named Amelia (Margaret Qualley) who is supposed to be dead but her
grandmother swears she’s seen her alive.
The Nice Guys is a sexual
romp back to the 70’s filled with strippers, porn stars and plenty of drug use
(ah, the good old days). Gosling and Crowe have a real “Laurel and Hardy vibe”
going on between them. It’s just a funny situation to see these two, usually
dramatic, actors play such bumbling clowns.
Shane Blake is the movie’s
director and co-writer. He was the hottest screen writer in Hollywood
thirty years ago when he wrote the script for the first Lethal Weapon movie.
The Nice Guys has that “Lethal Weapon feel”, but it’s not as good. However,
there are plenty of laughs in this one hour and fifty six minute long movie.
The Nice Guys is rated a hard
“R” for adult situations (nudity, strong language and drug use) and on my
“Hollywood Popcorn Scale” I rate it a LARGE.
Hollywood Hernandez
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