Who says nice guys finish last?
Well whoever it is, going by the latest trailer for Shane Black’s The Nice Guys, which pulls off a casting masterstroke in the shape of Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe (seriously, did you see their Oscar skit?), they might want to rethink that theory.
Los Angeles, 1970. When a bungling private eye (Gosling) reluctantly pairs with a tough guy enforcer (Crowe) to solve a case of a missing girl, and the seemingly-unrelated death of a porn star, the pair have to shoot and blag their way out of danger when they threaten to expose a conspiracy that goes right to the highest circles of power.
Not a million miles away from Black’s Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, another darkly funny LA-based crime caper which saw Val Kilmer and Robert Downey Jr as the odd couple tasked with solving a grizzly mystery, it promises quite a ride.
Not that you need to be a bourbon-swilling P.I. with a dame on the side to figure that one out.
The Nice Guys is in cinemas from 3 June
