The pursuit of laughs, friendship and criminals in action
crime buddy cop films has always been a thriving success with male characters, from ’21 Jump Street» to «Die Hard» to «End of Watch.»
Not exact matches
WHY: Shane Black is to
buddy cop films what Raymond Chandler is to hard - boiled
crime novels, and his latest movie, the retro detective noir «The Nice Guys,» is arguably his best entry in the genre since redefining the
buddy cop formula three decades earlier with «Lethal Weapon.»
The formula that Black continues to use emerges from the subgenre known as
buddy cop: from Lethal Weapon to his most recent
film, The Nice Guys, the protagonists are a pair of unusual detectives, who are instantly a peculiarity among the unfolding
crime story of the
film.