Definitely for the overseas crowd

Rating: 2/10 (11 July 2017)

Interesting that the 3 principals (including the insufferably annoying daughter) are all foreign-born. Don't get me wrong. I think Gosling & Crowe (was this some feeble homage to MST3K?) are terrific performers. But the hodgepodge "tributes" to 1970s movies (mostly Blaxploitaion flicks) & TV shows (mostly Rockford Files) are so lame & disjointed it would be an advantage not to be familiar with the culture or the language.
The film starts off at a good pace & moves at a good clip until just short of the one hour mark. Then the humor becomes painfully predictable & the plot (what there is of it) disintegrates into a million bits like an exploding pillow. Most annoying of all is the character of Ryan Gosling's daughter. Lord knows what she's doing in this but suddenly we're in Nancy Drew country.
Oh well there's a big market overseas & I guess they never tire of buddy cop/private eye movies.