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Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (15)
Mar 11 2006 By Graham Young, Birmingham Mail
LETHAL Weapon series writer Shane Black makes an impressive directorial debut with Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (also to buy DVD £17.99).
Sporting shades of David Lynch's Mulholland Drive and George Clooney's Out of Sight, as well as a double act worthy of the Mel Gibson/Danny Glover partnership, the film is a new take on the well-worn pulp fiction genre and comes loaded with fine dialogue and no little inventiveness.
Rough-edged bloodhounds Robert Downey Jr and Val Kilmer are complemented by the tasty Michelle Monaghan (The Bourne Supremacy).
Downey is also a sufficiently good narrator to handle the jumps over the various chapters taken from Raymond Chandler novels.