Though the second act of Robert Downey Jr.’s career truly took off with 2008’s Iron Man, the film that set the stage for that comeback actually arrived three years earlier, with Shane Black’s Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. The actor’s well-publicized legal troubles and issues with addiction made him a difficult figure in the entertainment industry, but somehow Black created the perfect star vehicle to begin to bring him back to Hollywood. In the vein of Black’s other screenplays, like Lethal Weapon or The Long Kiss Goodnight, the movie is self-referential and playful with genre conventions (while never going full Quentin Tarantino), in addition to being an exciting mystery that also knows how to pull a lampshade over its convoluted plotting. The most fitting part of it for Downey is Black’s hilarious and fast-paced dialogue, which let the always fast-on-his-feet actor show his capability with line delivery.
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