Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang Critic Reviews

It's just a movie with no particular reason for existing, a flashy, trifling throwaway whose surface cleverness masks a self-infatuated credulity.Read the full review

The comic surface of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is all polished brilliance, with surprisingly few dull patches...The movie doesn't deliver in the kiss-kiss department, though.Read the full review

Macabre, yes, but the movie's also inventive and funny. You get a lot of smart bang-bang for your buck.Read the full review

Robert Downey Jr. is perfect as Harry. He brings the right mix of cynicism, self-doubt, and unpretentiousness.Read the full review

Amazingly and incessantly funny, a free-form riff on Hollywood shenanigans, the film noir genre and film in general.Read the full review

Black's sadistic streak remains as uncomfortable as it ever was, and his direction is very much in the house style of producer Joel Silver. But both elements perfectly suit the material, which sneaks in a lot of sly stuff beneath the slick surface.Read the full review

Turns into a film that is too ostentatiously pleased with itself, so in love with its own cleverness it doesn't notice it's darn near worn you out.Read the full review

Downey and Monaghan are wonderful at playing characters that compensate for the harshness of their past with flippant swaggers.Read the full review

The deliriously enjoyable noir comedy-thriller Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang does nothing by halves and everything by doubles.Read the full review