“The Nice Guys” (** out of four) was a fizzled crime comedy starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling as a pair of mismatched private eyes investigating the murder of a pornography star on the seamier side of Los Angeles in 1977. Disappointing result for director and top screenwriter Shane Black whose directing is adequate but whose script is one-note, repetitive, and not terribly funny and did this action buddy comedy much better in “Lethal Weapon” in 1987. A reunion of Crowe and co-star Kim Basinger who both starred in “L.A. Confidential”, a much better crime drama from 1997 that actually had more laughs than this does.