The Big Sleep

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Don H Ebert, Sickle, Maslin all the big reviewers, beyond belief colluding to destroy a well cast, scripted and acted plot. Causing a viewer to be alert and follow a Sherlock/Poirot worthy presentation is no sin and certainly not the rot passing for theatre or a popcorn matinee. This is what happened to producing good movies. We have to look up noir and Bogart films in the pathetic 2020's. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/07/24 Full Review Nicolas M A dreadful pile of drek, based on the wildly overrated jottings of Chandler. Mitchum called it in and the rest of the cast did as little as possible with a pitiful script. Apparently, every cast member knew how bad it was when they signed on. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 09/16/23 Full Review Ikiru Y A TV movie of the week at best, and a bad one. You can't properly share how much worse this is than the original. By the way, did they forget Film Noir was supposed to be, you know...noir?! The quality at all levels is just awful. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/06/23 Full Review steve d Inferior in every way to the original. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Simon M I've seen both movies of this title (with Humphry Bogart - 1946, and with Robert Mitchem - 1978). I like both movie versions. I can see why some people who obviously watched the 1946 version might not like the 1978 version just because of the change in venue from the US west coast in 1946 to London England in 1978, perhaps the change in cinematography from black & white in 1946 to color in 1978, and the change in actors from Bogart and Bacall in 1946 to Mitchem in 1978. But both Bogart and Mitchem rank very high on my list of favorite actors, so I thoroughly enjoyed both movies, with enough differences to make the recast 1978 movie just as enjoyable as the original 1946 movie. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 08/19/22 Full Review jack s A forgettable and pointless remake that doesn't even amount to a respectable follow-up to Mitchum's earlier Farewell, My Lovely. The action this time is inexplicably transported to England, which finds American detective Phillip Marlowe awkwardly out of place and time. However, Mitchum is solid throughout—His strong work here almost makes the film watchable. But the rest of the large cast is wasted or worse. Clark in fact—in the few scenes onscreen where she's wearing any clothing—is just awful. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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