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Set in the 1970s ,Los Angeles, California, a boy named Bobby witnesses fading porn star Misty Mountains die in a car accident. Later that week, failed private eye Holland March (Ryan Gosling) is approached by Mrs. Glenn (Lois Smith), the aunt of Misty Mountains, who is obsessively claiming to have seen her niece alive. March is skeptical of her claim but realizes that a missing girl named Amelia Kutner (Margaret Qualley) is somehow involved and accepts the job. Soon after, the private investigator, relentlessly searching for Amelia Kuttner in connection with the deceased porn star. Meanwhile, Amelia does not wish to be found and a hired killer called Jackson (Russell Crowe) is then hired by Amelia herself to stop March and others from asking about her. That's why Jackson attempts to intimidate March into staying away from her . Nice pair !. They're not that nice !. A simple case, is the crime of the century !.

Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling star in this fun action comedy set in 1977 playing a hired hitman and a down-on-his-luck P. I. respectively, as they create an enjoyable couple, and they deliver good interpretative chemistry. This fast paced picture packs noisy supercharged action scenes , thrills, loud pursuits, lot of violence and grisly murders. The wacky, bouncing hired thug -but likeable-, always on the edge Russell Crowe and his partner the gentle and good separated father Ryan Gosling again give nice performances and including sympathetic relationship between the two leads. They go after and run afoul nasty criminals and attempt to find out a criminal conspiracy. Along with them, a group of fine actors giving attractive performances, among which stand out: the very young but adorable girl Angourie Rice, the veteran Kim Basinger who still retains her everlasting beauty, Margaret Qualley, before achieving total success for her role in ¨The Substance¨, Matt Bomer playing an unforgivable murderer , Yaya DaCosta, Keith David of ¨they Live¨, Beau Knapp, Gil Gerard, and Lois Smith who even had an important character in ¨East of Eden¨.

With this film, Shane Black returns to the action-packed 'Buddy Movies, in which an unlikely pair must face a powerful adversary against whom they initially have no chance. Thus, Shane began his career as a screenwriter in 1987, when he wrote the script for the first installment of "Lethal Weapon." Three more sequels followed, and he also earned his director's accolade with "Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang" (2005).

As director and screenwriter Shane Black explains: "It was a decaying metropolis, where pollution and hustle and bustle covered everything like a scab, and Hollywood Boulevard had become a cesspool of pornography."

As the famous blockbuster producer Joel Silver, producer of ¨Lethal Weapon¨ series and other Shane Black films, commented: "Shane has a unique cinematic style. His films aren't traditional comedies; they're action movies with humor, which is different. They're serious stories about tough guys. They have comedic moments throughout, but it's the action that makes the humor work."

In addition, Nice Guys' the wonderful soundtrack includes great hits from the 1970s with bands and singers such as Kiss, Earth Wind and Fire, the Bee Gees, Kool and the Gang, and the Temptations. The motion picture was well directed by Shane Black. Considered one of the pioneer screenwriters of the action genre, Black made his mark with his Lethal Weapon (1987) screenplay. He also collaborated on the story of the sequel, Lethal Weapon 2 (1989). Each successive script he turned in had a higher price attached it, from The Last Boy Scout (1991) to The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), and in between a re-write on the McTiernan/Schwarzenegger Last Action Hero (1993) script. Shane ha directed a few films, such as: The Predator (2018), Edge (2015), Iron Man 3 (2013), Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005). The Nice Guys (2016) rating: 6.5/10. The flick will appeal to Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling fans, as well as action/comedy enthusiasts.

A young man (Mario Casas) who wants to live in prison and will do whatever it takes to get there, raising questions such as if those who care about him will get to stop him from committing increasingly serious crimes. His sister Abril (Anna Castillo), with whom he lives and helps him, tries to get him to give up this ridiculous goal, but she can't shake his desire. The problem is that prison is, for everyone, a punishment for criminals, a place no one is supposed to want to go, with one exception: our starring. The movie is developed through a story divided into seven chapters and inexplicably titled after Snow White's dwarves-you know, Dopey, Bashful, Sleepy, Clumsy, Grumpy, Wise, and Happy. A film that disrupts the natural order of things!.

Produced by Martin Scorsese, starring Mario Casas, and directed by Rodrigo Cortés, 'Escape' is a tragicomedy, an action thriller, a prison drama,... or none of these things. It displays a weird script written by Rodrigo Cortés himself, based on the novel by Enrique Rubio. This unclassified film with Kafkaesque roots is the story of N, a man so desperate his only purpose in life is to go to prison, and once inside, to remain there forever. And to achieve that purport, he'll do anything: rob, fight, commit all kinds of crimes, escape...It's an uneven and strange movie; so, 'Escape' presents itself as an unclassifiable, bizarre and very free exercise, with a tone that fluctuates between parody and caricature.

Of course, Rodrigo Cortés' direction, Victor Reyes' soundtrack (Down a Dark Hall, Buried), David Azcano's cinematography (Teresa, Love Gets a Room) giving a touch of class, delivering the goods, but Escape's true strength lies in its dedicated cast. Mario Casas (Cross the line, The Photographer of Mauthausen) bravely immerses himself in a very physical and complex role, playing a character burdened by pain and trauma following the death of his wife. However, his performance sometimes suffers from excessive gestures. N.'s desire-a character whose name changes several times throughout the plot-is not to escape from prison, but to enter it to flee a life he doesn't believe he deserves to live, and Casas perfectly captures this idea. Regarding the supporting cast, thre're great Spanish actors, such as: Anna Castillo (Wind Flowers, Mediterraneo), in the role of N.'s sister, Guillermo Toledo as a peculiar psychologist, José Garcia as a tough, bossy inmate, José Sacristán as a stiff-upper-lip judge, Albert Pla as N.'s cellmate, Blanca Portillo as Dr Giráldez, Josep Maria Pou as priest, Juanjo Puigcorbé as Prison Director and others who do their part to add a touch of comic relief or absurdty to the story.

A film that quickly becomes a parade of ridiculous and grotesque situations one after another, in which Cortés seems to invite the viewer to abandon all logic and immerse themselves wholeheartedly in the protagonist's journey. However, the Galician writer's script proves to be too insubstantial, always revolving around the same idea and failing to "escape" from its initial premise.

Financed by none other than veteran maestro Scorsese, this is the second film directed in Spanish by the original director Rodrigo Cortés, fifteen years after his debut feature, The Contestant. Rodrigo Cortés himself defines Escape as: "Eastwood's Escape from Alcatraz, but in reverse." This Spanish filmmaker has directed notorious international successes as ¨Red Lights¨, ¨Dawn in dark hill¨ , ¨Blackwood¨. Being his previous film: ¨Love gets a room(2021) a clautrophobic and stagy musical set in the Warsaw Ghetto. His biggest hit was: ¨Buried¨ and another success was ¨The Contestant¨ (El Concursante) that won Maestre Mateo Award to support cast , best director and editing and Malaga Film Festival, best director , best cinematography , and Rodrigo Cortés has got several Goyas and nominations. 'Escape' rating: 6/10. An acceptable and passable film that does not reach the remarkable, due to the continually absurd and repetitive situations that take place throughout the story.

Thriller movie with suspense, action , intrigue , thrills and adequate interpretations. An interesting noir thriller in which two immigration service agents: Pablo Rodriguez (Ricardo Montalban) and Jack Bearnes (George Murphy) join hands across the border to smash a murderous racket exploiting cheap Mexican labour. They are two tough border agents who just want to do a right job and must test their own sense of justice and decency by facing corruption and violence. So the Mexican and American federal agents tackle a vicious gang exploiting illegal farm workers in southern California. But Jack Bearnes gets caught in chasing smuggle illegal immigrants across the Californian border. While the hapless braceros Chicanos are forced to work by a villainous owner (Howard Da Silva) and his cohorts (Charles McGraw, Alfonso Bedoya) in order to exploit them in short salary . Somewhere along a thousand miles of barbed wire border the American dream has become a nighmare !. Ricardo Montalban dares to you cross the line !. It divided the land, it divided the man!. The shame of two nations!.Bold!. Breathtaking!. Filmed where it happens!

Conventional script about immigration problem is jointed by a noir intrigue, tension, twists, turns a some violent scenes at the time. The movie has all the right spicy ingredients to appeal both public and critics, exposing tragedy and corruption along America's chain-link southern frontier. ¨Border Incident¨ shines bright by comparison with Tony Richardson's later ¨The Border¨ with Jack Nicholson, or Jerold Freeman's ¨Borderline¨ with Charles Bronson which treated a similar subject matter with twice the ambition and half conviction.

Stars Ricardo Montalban who gives a fine acting in his usual style as the undercover agent on the tracks of bad guys bringing illegal immigrants in. He was considered to be a Latin lover at MGM, and this was one of the few he made in Hollywood in which he actually played a Mexican. Co-stars George Murphy who had previously become a star through many romantic comedies and musicals. Along with them, a long list of supporting characters typical of the 1940s and 1950s in westerns, film noir and other genres, such as: the often baddie Howard Da Silva, James Mitchell, Arnold Moss, Alfonso Bedoya, Charles McGraw, José Torvay, John Ridgely, Sig Ruman and Arthur Hunnicut. Spanish actress and dancer Lita Baron was formerly known as Isabelita, Border Incident was the first film on which she used her new name, having subsequently some roles as starring. She performed with Xavier Cugat and his Orchestra and was a center of attention in the nightclubs of the Sunset Strip. There, she caught the attention of promising movie star (and future husband) Rory Calhoun and soon became a movie star in Savage Drums, The Broken Star, and Tesoro Pancho Villa.

It contains a moving and rousing musical score by Andre Previn. Lifted right out of the rut by John Alton's camerawork, which lets Anthony Mann to transforme routine heroics into the stuff of 'film noir'. Alton was one of te best Film Noir cameramen along with Nicholas Musuraca and John Seitz. Mann and Alton had just collaborated on T-Men (1947) and Raw Deal (1948), two exceptional noirs made for the low-budget indie studio Eagle-Lion. Theirs is now considered one of the great director-cinematographer relationships in American film. Their styles were perfectly suited for one another; each seemed to draw on the other's strengths. Both Mann and Alton would soon move on to A-pictures, with Mann directing a classic series of Westerns with James Stewart, beginning with Winchester '73 (1950). Alton soon achieved a reputation as one of the industry's most accomplished cinematographers. In 1951, Alton and Alfred Gilks won an Academy Award for color photography for An American in Paris. In 1960, following his work on Elmer Gantry (1960), he quit the movie business. He returned briefly in 1966 to direct photography for the pilot episode of the TV series Mission: Impossible (1966). Afterwards, he virtually disappeared. For years, even his closest friends did not know his whereabouts.

Border Incident (1949) from a story by John C. Higgins and George Zuckerman was competently directed by Anthony Mann. Mann was an expert on all kinds of genres as Thriller/Film Noir such as: ¨Desperate , T Men , Raw Deal , Border incident¨ ; Wartime as ¨Strategic Air command , Men in war , Heroes of Telemark¨ ; Historical and biographical : ¨Reign of terror , El Cid , The fall of the Roman empire , The Glenn Miller story¨ ; and outstanding in Western genre as ¨Devil's doorway¨ with Robert Taylor, ¨The tin star¨ with Henry Fonda, ¨Man of the West¨ with Gary Cooper , ¨The Furies¨ with Barbara Stanwick , ¨Cimarron¨ with Glenn Ford and ¨The tall target¨ with Dick Powell .Being his last one, ¨A Dandy in aspic¨ , played and co-directed by Laurence Harvey . A major disagreement with producer/star Kirk Douglas led to him being fired from Spartacus (1960) and replaced by Stanley Kubrick. However, this did not prevent them from working together again five years later in the World War II drama ¨The Heroes of Telemark¨ (1965). Rating ¨Border Incident¨ : 7/10 . Better than average . Well worth watching . The picture will appeal to Film Noir enthusiasts.