Great Film for Old Guys Like Me

Rating: 10/10 (23 May 2016)

Yeah. Yeah I'm giving it a ten. Just because of the age thing. I don't know if this movie was really a "10" but I enjoyed it immensely. So much that I used the word "immensely" which I don't do, much.
I went to see this film on another of my "at the mall, have to kill time" movie afternoons and it was this or "Angry Birds." I mentally tossed a coin and went in, expecting to be disappointed. Well, I wasn't. But I'm a weird guy. I like Monty Python. A lot. I like a certain kind of messed-up humor--not poop jokes but jokes ABOUT poop jokes. I found the jokes in this to be laughing out loud funny, and the last "comedy" that I laughed out loud at was "The Birdcage" with Robin Williams.
So your mileage may vary. I like it. I liked it a lot. It is tough (no...it's just about impossible) to make a "real" detective movie now, since the Cohens made "The Big Lebowski." But somehow, this movie pulls it off. It's really a true, hard-boiled detective story with plot and humor and everything. I'm not kidding. Plenty of plot twists and all that stuff.
But the movie did remind me that I'm weird as well as old. I can remember the seventies. The seventies were a friend of mine. This film is not from the seventies. But WHO CARES? This isn't about the seventies, at all. It's about NOW. Sheesh.
Now that you know where I stand, I should tell you that most "cop" shows make me sick. I can't stand a movie about America's Finest busting bad guys. Fascist crap. So this movie is for people who like movies that aren't fascist crap. So sue me. Stay away if you like fascist crap. A word to the wise. Now you can click "helpful."