Walked out at 55 minutes.

Rating: 3/10 (7 June 2016)

Something was seriously off with the plot of this movie. First Crowe seems like a savvy detective and then he hires bumbling detective Gosling to find a woman for some reason not entirely clear to the audience. Why a detective should hire another detective to work for him is beyond me and I can think of other ways the script could have brought these two together into this really stupid buddy movie. Then the dynamic shifts where Gosling seems to be the smart one and Crowe is depending on him to find this woman who might or might not be a porn star. I'm having a difficult time writing this, as you can tell. If my synopsis appears confusing well, that's how I felt in the movie. I still feel weirdly unsure about what role each of them played.
I did not find the funny scenes funny. To me they were forced and a little pathetic. Apologies to Crowe and Gosling, I loved you both in just about everything else you've done.
There were three scenes (before I left the theater) that contained children talking about or being exposed to very adult sexual content that crossed the line into inappropriate.
1979 came off strange to me and not entirely right. Sometimes it looked like the 80's and sometimes a bit like the 60's. Maybe that was just me. I was also a little distracted by the couple sitting behind me talking all throughout the movie. Do I shush them? Report them to theater management? Or just walk out? Well, since the movie sucked...