And Matt Bomer and Beau Knapp make memorably crazed villains. Gosling and Crowe have great chemistry together (although the degree of acting required by Crowe is debatable: he looks and acts like he seems to in most media interviews!) Some of their dialogue appears distinctly ad-libbed, which shows how comfortable they were with the roles. The basics of this scene are given a fresh and wonderfully gory rework that is truly memorable. "I didn't know there was a pool down there" responds the hoodlum. You might recall in "Diamond's Are Forever" that a Vegas hood tosses Plenty O' Toole out of Bond's hotel window. Some of the sight gags are laugh out loud material (and I don't tend to act on that often in a packed cinema). (All in all, it's a bit of a surprise that it got away with a '15' certificate in the UK).
There is a lot of violence, a bit of 70's porn and some fruity language that sensitive viewers may find offensive.
But "The Nice Guys" has an edge that those films of the 80's couldn't have got away with. (And that comparison is 100% valid since - and I honestly discovered this after I wrote that - director Shane Black ("Iron Man 3") got into cinema by writing the screenplay for the original "Lethal Weapon" back in 1987). As the film's tag-line admits "The Nice Guys" are "far from nice", and this is a sort of bromance buddy movie of the likes of "Lethal Weapon". But it's clear that Amelia is at the centre of a tornado of intrigue, since her mother Judith (Kim Basinger) is head of the Justice department and there are some heavies from New York and Detroit looking for Amelia too. This leads him right into the substantial fists of the 'heavy for hire' Jackson Healey (Russell Crowe), who's been hired by Amelia NOT to be found. Never one to turn down a pay check, Holland takes the case and the trail leads him to search for a missing girl called Amelia (Margaret Qualley).
It's pretty disturbing then that dodgy licensed private investigator Holland March (Ryan Gosling) has been hired two days later to find Misty by the slightly kooky Mrs Glenn (Lois Smith, the equally kooky doctor in "Minority Report") who saw her through the windows of Misty's home. And porn star Misty Mountains has just died (spectacularly). I'm sure this film is going to divide audiences, in the same way that "Kingsman" did.
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