#marlowe 2022

[blackramhall]

-What do you think i'll find inside? -The bust of Nefertiti. The Ark of the Covenant. Maltese Falcon. -Nothing more significant? -What more could you want?

Raymond Chandler's Marlowe - Neil Jordan (2022) Based on The Black-Eyed Blonde by John Banville

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[frommybookbook]

#9: Marlowe (2022)

For my Marlowe Movie Master List, we're starting off with both the worst of the 9 adaptations and the most recent: the 2022 Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger and made for Amazon Prime.

I don’t have much to say about this movie because I couldn’t make it past the first 10 minutes. It’s not even an adaptation of a Raymond Chandler novel, it’s based on some 2014 novel that “features” Philip Marlowe and I’m going to assume it completely misses the point of hardboiled fiction. I'm tempted to say this doesn't make it a true Philip Marlowe movie, but if the James Bond movies after License to Kill count as canon for that fandom, then this does too.

Normally I love Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger so much that I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt in anything but this was just awful from the first scene. Neither one seemed to be making any effort—Neeson wasn’t even attempting to do an American accent (neither was Kruger but that may have been in character for her, I can’t say). Even the background shots playing behind the opening credits were a caricature of Golden Age Hollywood and the LA of the 30s. I have no intention of giving this one a second chance because there’s too many other good movies out there I haven’t seen.

Overall movie score: 0/5, I couldn’t get through the first scene

Marlowe score: 0/5, Neeson wasn’t even trying, for crying out loud he didn't even attempt to do an American accent

Perry Mason score: 0/5, unsurprisingly there weren't any Perry Mason actors of any sort involved with this film

For a reminder of why I started this series and how I'm rating these movies, you can check out my master Marlowe post. I'll be posting my reviews/rankings of the remaining 8 Marlowe movies using the tag #Marlowe movies so if you're interested, follow along!

[orlaogden]

Jessica Lange as Dorothy Quincannon in Marlowe (2022)

[mostlygibberish]

I liked the part with the thompson.

I went into this with the strong impression that it was going to be a bad movie, but it exceeded my expectations by instead being mediocre.

Some of it was kind of interesting, but then just as much of it was oddly flat and sedate. Liam Neeson was okay I guess. Daniela Melchior showed up for like 10 minutes and gave such a bad performance it's remarkable they didn't cut it.

Surprisingly okay.

[hollywood-fashion]

Diane Kruger in Ashi Studio Couture at the Marrakech Film Festival premiere for Marlowe on November 17, 2022.

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[moviehealthcommunity]

Marlowe (2022)

This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.

Marlowe has a few very brief moments where machine guns are fired in bright daylight. The muzzle flashes create strobes, but they only last a few seconds at a time.

Most of this film is dialogue-driven, and the scenes of dialogue use stationary or very smooth cameras. The action-driven scenes use a mild to moderate shaky camera.

Flashing Lights: 5/10. Motion Sickness: 4/10.

TRIGGER WARNING: There is some gore in this film. One scene has Nazi imagery on the set of a movie. A few racial slurs for Hispanic people are used.

Image ID: A promotional poster for Marlowe

[kindheartedgummybears]

just got done watching MEN 2022 and HOLY JESUS WOW?!!??!?!

That was so fucking good?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!!?

Jessies acting???? the soundtrack???? THE SYMBOLISM?!?!?!?!?! THE EFFECTS??!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?

15/10 WOW. JUST WOW.

you NEED. To watch this film. But I will warn you it is a very sensitive movie. There's nudity of the male body, MPREG, SA, Suicide, Cops... ETC! but it is actually so fucking good.

[tinyreviews]

This is just not noir. In fact, it’s the opposite of noir, from the way it portrays the hero to how it ends on a feel-good note. Marlowe is a 2022 neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Neil Jordan and written by William Monahan. Based on the 2014 novel The Black-Eyed Blonde by John Banville, writing under the pen name Benjamin Black, the film stars Liam Neeson, and features Diane Kruger, Jessica Lange, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Alan Cumming, Francois Arnaud, Ian Hart, Danny Huston, Daniela Melchior and Colm Meaney.

[thejewofkansas]

The Weekly Gravy #127

Marlowe (2022) – *** Maybe it was the low expectations, but I’m a bit baffled as to just how weak the reviews for Marlowe have been. No, it doesn’t come near the noir classics it pays homage to – and it probably could’ve chosen a stronger source material than the 2014 novel The Black-Eyed Blonde by John Banville (writing as Benjamin Black), especially since several of Raymond Chandler’s novels…

[mermaidinthecity]

September 22, 2022

[davidwatchedthat]

7/10/24

MARLOWE, directed by Neil Jordan, 2022.

[gataxia]

bring it on: cheer or die (2022) dir. karen lam