Excellent buddies movie

Rating: 9/10 (31 July 2016)

The Nice Guys represents the buddy movie genre at its best. Shane Black is an excellent director and a brilliant writer. He knows how to create hilarious characters and how to put them in absurd scenes — absurd in a comic way. It is a ton of fun. Watching The Nice Guys made me want to go back and take a look at his earlier films. The characters were well written, even better cast, and fit well with the theme of the film. There was rare a dull moment, it seemed I was either enjoying the dark comedic tone, or getting engaged in the plot. The Nice Guys is pretty much a buddy cop comedy.
Set in 1977 Los Angeles, bumbling private eye Holland March (Ryan Gosling) and muscle-for-hire Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) become unlikely partners when they find themselves both looking for a missing woman named Amelia (Margaret Qualley). The two men then find out that Amelia was working with Misty Mountains and an amateur filmmaker named Dean. Dean, however, mysteriously died in a fire that burned the film. The two end up at a party to search for the film's financier, Sid Shuttuck, a notorious pornography producer. The two detectives come to party for searching Amelia. However, they met Blue Face and Older Guy whom are two assassins hiring by Amelia's mother, try to kill Amelia because Amelia have evident which reveal her mother's bad stuffs such as drug dealer, porn movie, sell illegal weapon. Jackson Healy fights with Older Guy, while Blue Face tries to kill Amelia from inside his car, only to be stopped by Holly (Holland March's daughter), who warns Amelia and then escapes with her. While chasing them down, Blue Face is seriously injured in a hit-and-run. Later, Blue Face was strangled by Jackson Healy and dead. After a brief investigation, the two are greeted by Amelia's mother, Judith Kutner (Kim Basinger), a high-ranking official in the United States Department of Justice, who claims her daughter is delusional and paranoid and she hire two detective to protect her daughter. Jackson Healy reveals the note paper with Holland March 's address given to him by Amelia is identical to a paper he found at the party, which gives leads to an airport hotel where Amelia was going to distribute the film. Two detectives found Amelia land on their car from the building where she is accidentally knocked out. They take her back to March's house and two detective was told by Amelia about her mother bad stuffs in government and bad Detroit group. Amelia created How Do You Like My Car, Big Boy? To reveal those bad stuffs in government. Amelia mother has her assistant, Tally (Yaya DaCosta), arrange for Holland and Healy to deliver a case that supposedly contains one hundred thousand dollars. However, a half-asleep March accidentally crashes their car and the case is opened to reveal shredded magazines, causing them to realize that they have been double-crossed. At home, Holly is confronted and attacked by John Boy, who had been sent by Tally under the guise of being a family doctor. Holland March and Jackson Healy arrive back at the house and engage in a shootout with John Boy. John Boy escapes, while an impatient Amelia leaves, only to run into and be killed by John Boy. March and Healy try to bring the matter to court, but are rejected, as they have no evidence, leading them again to search for the film. They found out that the projectionist, Chet (Jack Kilmer), another protester they had questioned about Dean, is the projectionist for the film and had worked with Amelia to make How Do You Like My Car, Big Boy? Public by splicing it into the presentation film for the Los Angeles Auto Show, which is being held at a hotel. At the auto show, the two find that John Boy and Older Guy also was in this hotel to searching the film. Two detectives fight with two bad guys. At the end, two detectives have the film and two bad guys (John Boy and Older Guy) was dead. The detectives take How Do You Like My Car, Big Boy? To the police and though Judith is arrested, the Detroit car companies are immune to any charges, due to insufficient evidence. When she talks with March and Healy before her trial, Judith claims she did not want her daughter killed and justifies her involvement by insisting that "what is good for Detroit is good for America." Afterward Healy and March decide to continue working together as private eyes, naming their agency "The Nice Guys."