The nice Guys (2016) review
Can we get a movie with just Gosling and the anthropomorphic cigarette smoking bumblebee from his dreams? My totally out of context intro serves to illustrate that everything Gosling does is eminently watchable whereas Russell Crowe…not so much. I’m not saying Crowe is a bad actor, he’s quite good, only that I can’t recall a Gosling role I didn’t like whereas with Crowe it begins with Gladiator and drops precipitously from there. All said, the two have solid chemistry and the 1977 setting is an interesting neon-tinged backdrop. And the wardrobes, oh the wardrobes. I couldn’t dress as cool as these two if I tried. I also loved seeing Kim Basinger again. Can we get more roles for Basinger? Hopefully her agent sees this. Real Quick: The highlight for me was the sweet but strained relationship between Gosling and his daughter. She knows he is a badly flawed man and loves him anyway. We could learn a thing or two from her.