Noir comedy with ups and downs.

Rating: 7/10 (18 September 2016)

The first scene of the film will tell you all you need to know about the feel of it all: a kid sneaks in his parents' bedroom to get a porno mag, opens to the centerfold, sees "Misty Mountains" and while he smiles a car goes right through his house, killing its occupant, none other than Misty Mountains. You know it's going to be a comedy and you know it's going to be dark.
The rest of the movie is carried by Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling. Truly, with less talented cast the film would have been a funny but failed story, and this shows most painfully towards the end of the movie, when everything goes over the top and ridiculous.
That doesn't mean the film is not entertaining and, as I said, the acting was great. The script was original and some of the scenes funny as hell. It's just inconsistent, going from great ideas and scenes to ridiculous and pointless ones.
You know what it reminded me of? That video camera commercial where a guy is changing the battery while a car spins out of control, hits an exploding gas station and lands in a hotel and he didn't get anything on tape. It has cars, explosions, shooting, silly characters and even a video camera film that everyone is looking for. But in the end, you just don't feel it like it was intended.