I didn't find it as funny as others

Rating: Null/10 (9 June 2016)

Critics and audiences alike have rated this movie and some of my friends really liked it, but I was disappointed.
At one level, it's a retread of action comedy buddy films like "Lethal Weapon" which is not surprising since director and co-writer Shane Black penned the original "Lethal Weapon" in 1987. But clearly, three decades later, he feels that the humour has to be more absurd (interviewing mermaids?) and the violence has to be more visceral (choking a dying man?) and this is a combination which sat uneasily with me in spite of a sharp, wise-cracking script.
Of course, as the eponymous private eyes of seedy 1977 Los Angeles, burly Russell Crowe, as the violent Jackson Healy, and slimline Ryan Gosling, as the more sensitive Holland March, have great chemistry and are very watchable, but some of the female roles - especially Kim Bassinger (remember her in "LA Confidential" with Crowe) and young Angourie Rice (an impressive film debut) - are more surprising delights.