These are the 2 that have taken the Bond franchise to the next level, serious performance's not that campy with much better scripts than in past years.
This film is great for many reasons, most of it has been said in other reviews, one of them is the way Los Angeles was filmed and captured, great shots of mid/late 90's L.A. and a solid crime story.
If you like Quentin Tarantino films and Elmore Leonard than you won't go wrong with this, Michael Keaton and Sam Jackson do a solid job. And the vacum cleaner guy from the last season of Breaking Bad is great.