A petty criminal, via a fortuitous film audition-cum-escape attempt, is whisked off to Hollywood, where he attends the odd party, meets (after numerous years apart) the unrequited love of his life, becomes involved with a gay private detective, and accumulates several corpses whilst playing amateur sleuth, in Shane Black’s knowing, irreverent, and blackly comic action movie parody-cum-film noir homage. Iain.Stott
