We saw this film today. I knew nothing about it prior to getting to the cinema, so no preconceptions. Russell Crowe plays Jackson Healy, a guy who gets paid to lean on people, while Ryan Gosling is Holland March, a more conventional private detective who has an eye to making money from some gullible clients. Angourie Rice, meanwhile, play's Holland's daughter, Holly, and plays her very well indeed. She has a bit of a young Jodie Foster about her.

Healy and March find themselves interested professionally in the same woman, Amelia Kuttner, who not only turns out to be extremely illusive, but also part of an intrigue involving a porn movie, some shady dealings in the Detroit automotive industry and, we eventually find out, is the daughter of the Justice Secretary, Judith Kuttner. And our two anti-heroes soon discover that they're not the only ones looking for Amelia, there being some extremely unsavoury types also in the chase.

This film revolves around the chemistry between Healy and March and I must say it's superb. The humour comes thick and fast, as the 'non-detective' Healy continually keeps the often tipsy 'real detective' March on track, although the latter sometimes does come up with the goods, but there are also times when he loses his way.