A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming role...
[A] cheerful mess of a pulp-fiction parody, pumped full of laughs by Michelle Monaghan, Val Kilmer, and Robert Downey Jr.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
27 Nov 2007
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[Robert Downey Jr. is] the quickest, sharpest, slyest and wryest comic actor on the screen.
– Joe Morgenstern,
Wall Street Journal,
17 Dec 2011
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Jumpy and ironic, Downey is a quicksilver delight and Kilmer is funny as the gay Perry.
– David Ansen,
Newsweek,
4 Dec 2013
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Kiss Kiss is such a delightful bombardment, we barely notice that Black's convoluted, serpentine plot doesn't make a lick of sense.
– Craig Outhier,
Orange County Register,
14 Dec 2014
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The plot of the film is almost willfully convoluted. But it's also largely beside the point, an excuse for quite a few good scenes, most of them equal parts homage and subversion.