DVD | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Shane Black knows big-budget action movies, he wrote the screenplays for movies such as Lethal Weapon and The Last Boy Scout. In Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, Black not only writes, but directs also. He manages to mock and undercut every action movie cliché he once helped to invent.

The story goes a little like this; Fleeing from the cops, Harry Lockhart (Robert Downey Jr) gate crashes an acting audition - and nails it - he gets taken to Hollywood, where he discovers his high school love (Michelle Monaghan) and gets caught up in plot twisting murder mystery.

Not only is this movie a riot of action and laughs, it manages to be original whilst serving up the clichés.

Of course it’s not going to be everyone’s cup of tea, and there’s no profound message, but it’s refreshing to see some very black humour in a genre that is often taken way to seriously.