Me, back in February, directly from my review of "Drive", my opinion on Ryan Gosling:

"This is my first movie with him, and I can safely say, this has to be one of the most uninteresting actors I think I've ever seen in a motion picture."

Me now, after seeing "La La Land", "The Big Short", and this:

".......

I was a fucking idiot nearly a year ago."

94

"Why don't we invite him in?"

"No animals in the house, sweetheart."

Goes right into a certain pile of movies (The Big Lebowski, Inherent Vice, The Long Goodbye) which utilize comedic trappings to explore emptiness, loss, and the strangling grip of capitalism. The tightest, snappiest, most deceptively beautiful screenplay in years.

75/100

The definition of pure summer pleasure. Shane Black builds a comedic duo like no one else, but Gosling and Crowe take every frazzled, frustrated, blumbering word and morph it into hilarity. Gosling, in particular, is the undeniable showstopper, adding clarity and innocence to an already lovable doofus of puppy-like charms. And although the action is crisp, its Noir elements crumble to pieces because of the flabby pacing. These rough patches take a special film and lower its aspirations to the point where walking out with a satisfied grin was strangely disappointing.

feels like it was one draft away from being a really good movie (which puts it several drafts ahead of most other studio films so far this year). nice to have the real Shane Black back and doing the shtick he does so well, but too many of the gags fall flat, and the noir plot window-dressing — while meant to be inscrutable — is frustratingly empty. Johnny Gossamer would not approve.

on the other hand, russell crowe is *fantastic,* and gosling gets the job done.

Still holds up the second time again.

No one watched the Nice Guys. I didn't watch the Nice Guys. I wish I'd gone and seen the fucking Nice Guys.

The Gos is great in this! 
Laughed my ass off a couple of times. Loved the clumsy violence

'U TOOK THE LORDS NAME IN VAIN'  

'NO I DIDNT JANET I FOUND IT VERY USEFUL JANET'

I watched this movie plastered as hell with some friends and it was SO difficult to follow, but then I watched it a second time (sober) and boy was I taken for a ride. I did not expect a collaboration with Russel Crowe and Ryan Gosling to make me laugh so much.

This is a movie that I feel I need to watch again. I enjoyed it, really like the actors, and it is my type of production but I must have been having a bad day because I found it just okay while many others including my friends loved it. I'm going to watch again and go from there.

The style of this film is so slick and charming to watch. The two leads are superb in their roles, playing a bit off type and both carrying the film well. Gosling is superb at the physical comedy, something I've not seen him do before and Crowe is the bad cop who lives with his regrets. The script is fun and engaging, with both archetypes and stereotypes being used for convention and broken whenever required. This falls in the noir genre, but it can also be described as a buddy cop film with fun action and suspense. The dialogue is superb, full of quotes that are absurd but given the dark setting, it all makes sense and is thoroughly believable. The two lead characters are developed so quickly and each has a great arc. A must watch, if you're ok with the very adult content.