Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Can you make a movie undeniably shallow, base, violent (and incomprehensible), yet invest it with satirical cunning and knowingness, energised by brilliantly barbed screenwriting? Yes, it transpires, you can.

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Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang is made for a fairly specific audience; it helps if you are familiar with the private eye genre in general and the works of Raymond Chandler in particular...

...nicely portends both Downey’s subsequent rocketlike professional rise and the metal-suited character that has fueled it.

...the movie employs all manner of overused “meta” devices to signal cleverness. Chief among these is the sarcastic and self-aware narrator.