The Nice Guys (2016) Movie Reaction & Review

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In 1977 Los Angeles, Holland March is a private eye who is hired by porn star Misty Mountain's aunt Mrs. Glenn, who claims to have seen Misty still alive after her death. March's investigation leads him to Amelia Kuttner, an associate of Misty who pays violent enforcer named Jackson Healy to scare March away. Healy is interrogated by two thugs, "Blueface" — so named after he sets off a dye pack while searching Healy's apartment — and Older Guy, about Amelia. Healy wards them off with a shotgun and teams up with a reluctant March to find Amelia first. March and Healy question Amelia's anti-pollution protest group and meet Chet, who brings them to the burnt-down house of Amelia's boyfriend Dean, who died in the fire. They learn that Amelia and Dean were working with Misty on an "experimental film" combining pornography and investigative journalism. The two infiltrate a party in search of the film's financier named Sid Shattuck.

Healy discovers the film is missing, while March drunkenly stumbles into Shattuck's dead body and unknowingly crosses paths with Amelia. March's daughter Holly, having sneaked along to the party, stops Blueface from killing Amelia. Blueface is struck in a hit-and-run and Amelia flees. Healy subdues Older Guy and finds Blueface dying. Blueface tells Healy that his boss has dispatched a hit man named John Boy to kill all witnesses. Healy discreetly kills Blueface. The police arrive at the scene, where March and Healy are met by Amelia's mother Judith Kuttner, a high-ranking official in the Justice Department, who claims Amelia is delusional. Judith hires the duo to find her daughter. March and Healy go to an airport hotel where Amelia is meeting with distributors for the film. John Boy has arrived ahead of them; they witness the businessmen being slaughtered and hastily retreat, only for Amelia to land on their car, shoot at them and knock herself unconscious.

They take her to March's house, where she accuses her mother of colluding with car makers to suppress the catalytic converter, which regulates exhaust emissions. Amelia created the film to expose their collusion and believes her mother had killed the person who are connected to the film. March tells Judith's assistant Tally that Amelia has been found and is at March's house. Tally tells them that Judith has requested that they deliver a briefcase of $100,000 to Judith and informs them that the family's doctor will go to March's house to check on Amelia. When March crashes the car, the briefcase flies open to reveal shredded magazines; the delivery was a diversion to leave Amelia unprotected. John Boy arrives at March's house disguised as the family doctor, attacks Holly and her friend Jessica, and engages in a shootout with the returning March and Healy. As John Boy evades the police, Amelia flees the house and unwittingly flags down his car only to be killed. The police question and release March and Healy, who have no evidence that Judith is behind the murders. March realizes that Mrs. Glenn saw Misty in a film projected against a wall. At Misty's house, they discover a film projector, but the film is missing. They realize that Chet is the projectionist for the Los Angeles Auto Show and will try to screen the film at the event.

At the auto show, Tally intercepts Healy and March at gunpoint. Holly distracts Tally, who is knocked unconscious. Amelia's film, which Chet spliced into the auto show presentation, implicates the auto executives. On the rooftop, March struggles with Older Guy, who falls to his death as March lands in the pool after both fall from the roof. Holly stops Tally from reaching the film. Healy overpowers John Boy, but spares his life at Holly's ultimatum and March secures the film from thugs sent by the auto executives. Judith is arrested, but insists that it was Detroit who wanted Amelia dead; she hired March and Healy to keep Amelia safe. Judith remarks that while she will go to prison, Detroit has still gotten away with trying to suppress the catalytic converter. At a bar on Christmas Eve, March shows Healy an advertisement for their new detective agency called "The Nice Guys".