Aug 30, 2017 07:59 PM
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"Marriage is buying a house for someone you hate, " says Healy played by Russel Crowe in Shane Black's buddy cop thriller titled "The Nice Guys". This is Crowe in a role never seen before role, and he is pal to private eye "March" played by Ryan Gosling.
There is a scene in "The Nice Guys, " where the two private eyes interrogate a bartender in a Chicago hotel - "we are trying to be nice here" says Healy. The next moment, Healy sucker punches the bartender on the face.
Funny one moment, outrageous the next. The Nice Guys has inspired lunacy with a plot centered on organized crime in Hollywood boulevard.
Private eyes March and Healy are on the prowl of a young girl named Amelia, who is linked to the mysterious death of Misty Mountains a porno actress. When Amelia's aunt happens to see Mountains through her windows a day after she dies, aunt hires March to find out Amelia. Coincidentally, Amelia has hired Healy to sucker-punch March as well and that leads to a beautiful friendship between the two private eyes.
There is only so much action one can fathom in a buddy cop movie, so Nice Guys can be classified as a thriller. The terrific chemistry between Gosling and Crowe do wonders to the film, but the real star is March's 13 year old daughter Holly played by Angourie Rice.
There is also Kim Basinger a chief officer in the US Justice Department cum Amelia's mother. The plot harkens back to an era that predates the 1990s Gresham novels - in one scene we see the two private eyes passing by the hoarding of "Jaws 2" which was released in 1978.
The plot is an excuse to throw in comedy into the midst of all that made Chicago and Hollywood filthy rich. Black uses metaphor and innuendos to refer to an America that once existed - we see Nixon in a swimming pool in one scene as imagined by March. Surely there is more to theater references and political references in The Nice Guys than meets the eye.
As a neutral, I can only say rarely has two private eyes been so foul mouthed, and my caveat for you is do not be fooled by the title. No family film, this. But a film which has a family in it - go team.
