Article: `Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang,' laugh, cry.(Arts and Lifestyle)

Byline: STEPHEN SCHAEFER

"Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang."

Rated R. At Loews Boston Common.

Three stars (out of four)

If you think people get manhandled in "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang," wait till you see what happens to the corpses. Talk about Bang! Bang!

The directorial debut of "Lethal Weapon" screenwriter Shane Black, "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" is the smartest, fastest, funnest Hollywood update on '40s film noir from someone who knows the turf well.

Narrated first-person Bogart-style by burglar-turned-(maybe)-actor Harry Lockhart (Robert Downey Jr.), "Kiss Kiss" tells a complicated story that begins with Harry's hairbreadth escape ...

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