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Marlowe (1969)

Rate: 4
Viewed: 5/16

5/16: I like James Garner as Philip Marlowe in Marlowe, but the movie isn't good.

For starters, the plot makes no sense. Naturally, I have to wait until the end to see what that's all about. When the mystery is finally cleared up, it still doesn't make any sense. I should've known this by going back to The Big Sleep.

The best scene is when Bruce Lee, for his first role in an American film, tried to pull off a flying kick but ended up going over the balcony that's ten stories high. His smashing up Marlowe's office is also funny.

Sadly, the movie fails to capture the gritty environment of Los Angeles given the fact that Stirling Silliphant, who came off his Oscar win for In the Heat of the Night, wrote the script with the aid of Raymond Chandler's novel The Little Sister which should've been a simple job.

All in all, Marlowe is a disappointing neo-noir picture.

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