Fast Forward Will Be Needed to Watch This

Rating: 5/10 (10 July 2016)

The Nice Guys is another perfect example of why Hollywood needs writers who have never seen a damn movie, ever. To begin with it's a period piece when there is really no reason why it needs to be set in the 70s. Change it to the present and nothing changes.
So the formula is this: make zero sense, have groovy 70s tunes, add something about porno and child porno, throw in lots of stupid and gratuitous violence, have a stupid buddy thing going on, and try to hit upon as many clichés in the genre as possible in the allotted time. The shoot-outs were just dumb. At one point a huge palm tree is felled by machine gun fire yet nobody is hit. I gave up caring about the story after ten minutes.