Talk:The Nice Guys

Negative review
The other negative reviews seem to be fair, but I looked up Rex Reed's wiki (the guy who gave the movie a 0 score) and apparently he's something of a troll and/or bully. It does not appear to be an objective or very good representation of those who did not like the movie. Not knowing much about movie reviewers I would however rather wait for someone who would know better than me, but it does not seem his opinion is taken very seriously.

CaliforniaBummer (talk) 17:23, 26 December 2017 (UTC)CaliforniaBummer


 * I've removed the Rex Reed review for the reasons stated above: fundamentally, it is not representative of the negative reviews of this film. It is also an unusually mean-spirited review ("jarringly untalented writer-director", "Shane Black’s credits (wrote Lethal Weapon, directed Iron Man 3) disqualify him from being taken seriously", etc.), and it's factually incorrect when it calls the Healy character a "rival dick"--it's a plot point that he is a hired tough guy and not a private investigator. Reed repeats the mistake by calling them both "private eyes". Consequently it seems like an unusually low-quality review on top of being unrepresentative. The rest of the negative review paragraph does a good job of summarizing such views without the Rex Reed sentence. 2603:8000:A303:F8EC:A861:E980:187E:AFD6 (talk) 07:48, 8 January 2022 (UTC)