Article: KISS KISS, BANG BANG

He lost it at the movies: Lethal wunderkind returns with adrenalized screwball comedy

KISS KISS, BANG BANG

Written and directed by Shane Black

Warner Bros., opens October 21

BACK IN BLACK

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang is a calling-card movie that invites you to enjoy, and even participate in, the comeback of writer-director Shane Black: To watch this frantic exercise in smartass violence is to watch a hyperactive slapstick comic perform emergency resuscitation on his own career. * Hero of the go-go '80s, Black embodied a particular Hollywood fantasy-the screenwriter as rock star. He sold his first script fresh out of UCLA, inventing the Lethal Weapon franchise at age 23. None of his subsequent ...

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