His murder-mystery-noir-farce (it’s kind of a first) is, at heart, a deconstruction of both Kael’s complaint and Bond’s sexy, trigger-happy delirium. For not only does it reference the working title of 007’s fourth adventure Thunderball, it is the name of legendary critic Pauline Kael’s second collected work, a label penned to deride the thrill-seeking shallowness she felt had irrevocably poisoned cinema. It’s a snarky in-joke, a gleeful signpost to exactly where this energetic and blackly comic return to the fold for screenwriter Shane Black (who directs for the first time) is headed.
That this film is called Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang is a big hint.
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