Another great movie from my Film and Literature Class. Val Kilmer as a Gay private investigator. Robert Downey Jr. as a bumbling idiot for whom everything goes wrong. Michelle Monaghan as his high school crush. That almost sums this movie up, yet there is so much more. This movie has an extremely unique screenplay. The script is a type of meta fictional story. It is narrated by the main character, Robert Downey, Jr.'s character, Harry Lockhart. He is self-aware and comments on parts of the plot and speaks directly to the audience about flaws in the screenplay and production of the movie. This gives the movie a unique quality to be able to do pretty much whatever it wants in terms of plot and still be believable, to a point. Some of the plot points are a little ridiculous, but those are used as comedic breaks. This movie is definitely a comedy, yet it is very dark and has some seriously heavy-duty points and maybe even a moral. It is a wild ride from beginning to end, and is a pleasure to watch, if, as RD Jr.'s character points out, you don't mind the F-word too much.
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