The Last Boy Scout

I don’t want to say that Tony Scott directing a script by Shane Black is a match made in heaven, but it did lead to Tony Scott’s best film since the start of his career directing feature films. The younger Scott is obviously someone who didn’t have much in the way of an eye for the building blocks of a good screenplay, and he was sometimes just a pawn for the erratic cinematic ambitions of Don Simpson. However, combining with Black’s solid approach to narrative, sarcastic wit in his dialogue...