Marlowe

Everyone that doesn't like this movie obviously hasn't ever read a Raymond Chandler book. Get off your movie high horses and read a book every now and then. This movie while not perfect is a good movie and portrays a Raymond Chandler book pretty well. Liam neeson in my opinion a great casting for this movie especially considering this is Marlow in the middle years of his P.I. business. This I not a great movie, not a perfect movie but a good adaptation of the books. I'm also willing to bet Neeson read and enjoyed Chandler books long before this film and yes I'll admit he is a bit old to be doing this role but he doesn't look 70.

This is a throwback to all those Humphrey Bogart detective films. The dialogue is quotable, if archaic. The scene is the Hollywood glory days. The baddies are unidimensional. The cast is vintage. Not a bad watch for a lazy night but nothing outstanding, either. I gave this film a 7 (nostalgic) out of 10.

Regardless of what a lot of people claim, this is a quite good old-fashioned murder mystery and private investigator story. It is quite well done in the style one would expect when implementing a story where the main character is the famous Philip Marlowe.

This kind of story should not be filled with insane action, psychopathic outbursts or any other of the other stuff that Hollywood (as well as probably the younger audience) seems to think that every movie needs.

Is it slow as many people say. Sure if you compare with John Wick it is slow. For a Philip Marlowe movie it is just right.

When watching this movie I was really quite happy that this was not another movie (and character) that Hollywood felt they had to “modernize” like the remake abominations where Hercule Poirot runs on top of train cars and chases murderers waving guns.

It is a good mystery story. It is a good implementation. Liam Neeson, whom I generally like as an actor, is quite a good fit for the role of Philip Marlowe. Overall I quite enjoyed this movie.

The fact that the so called “critics” at Woke (Rotten) Tomatoes gave this movie 25% Rotten of course destroyed any credibility these woke hacks might have had left. If I move does not project the right agenda it is rotten by their standards, or rather lack thereof.

Like expensive shoes, this looks good on the outside but feels really normal inside.

If they'd only put as much work into the story as they had the filming.

Initially, I wanted to give it 5, but Liam Neesom is a good actor. However, we can't consider this movie as one of his best... The acting was somehow weird, I don't know something didn't feel right to me.

The movie is fair, you won't be totally enjoying it and you might even leave the theater early as it is boring somehow and with the okay acting it will be hard to stay.

For me, it was fine, dialogs are hard sometimes to understand, or maybe this is just for an ESL person, story is not great and not terrible, music was good, camera work was fair.

Not reaching the older Marlowe-Movies, but ok. The last 30 minutes are the best of it.

I cannot give any this more than a 5 out of 10. The story is straight up boring and a bad "The Black-Eyed Blonde" adaptation. The only thing that saves this movie is the cast.

A revisiting of Philip Marlowe's character that feels as monotonous as the character himself assuming the passage of time. Although it sometimes has successful moments, especially those featuring a superbly sarcastic Jessica Lange, it seems that the director fails to balance the tone and pace of the story, which ends up being boring and false in its portrayal of the plots. dialogues. Though it manages to make Barcelona and the surrounding area look like Los Angeles, it's a failed film that doesn't measure up to Benjamin Black's renaissance of the character.

This really should work. The story is based on a modern Marlowe novel. The names are top class. It's shot in a sort of pale sepia to invoke the historical setting... but in this case the sum of It's parts adds up to a lot less than the whole. It's interminably dull.

Neeson looks great in a fedora but beyond his hatwear, his character barely resembles the detective character from Chandler's novels. This isn't the movies biggest problems though. The dull and predictable storyline is the biggest disappointment here.