Once upon a time ago, Shane Black was probably the most highly-paid and hated scriptwriter in Hollywood, involved with multi-million dollar script sales ranging from LETHAL WEAPON to LONG KISS GOODNIGHT to LAST BOY SCOUT. Then he dropped off the radar.
He returns, with LETHAL WEAPON producer Joel Silver backing him, in his directorial debut. Filming his script, Black helms this charming and would-be post modernistic take on both pulp crime novels and action pictures, except his protagonists are useless people that TRY to imitate such hard-boiled heroes.
The movie is very charming, if too smart for its own good at times, with almost a hint that Black is trying to create the next underground cult video favorite, which I guess isn't the worst thing to happen.
