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.

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.

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.

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 is 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.

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.