Marlowe (2022)

	Directed by: Neil Jordan	COUNTRY France/Ireland/Spain GENRE Neo-noir crime NORWEGIAN TITLE Marlowe RUNNING TIME 109 minutes
	Produced by: Philip Kim Patrick Hibler Alan Moloney Gary Levinsohn Mark Fasano Billy Hines
	Written by (based on "The Black-Eyed Blonde" by Benjamin Black): William Monahan Neil Jordan

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Philip Marlowe	Liam Neeson	½
Clare Cavendish	Diane Kruger	½
Dorothy Quincannon	Jessica Lange	½
Cedric	Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje	½
Bernie Ohls	Colm Meaney	-
Lynn Peterson	Daniela Melchior	-
Lou Hendricks	Alan Cumming	½
Floyd Hanson	Danny Huston
Nico Peterson	Francois Arnaud	-
Joe Green	Ian Hart	-

Review

The once relevant Neil Jordan (Mona Lisa, The Crying Game) tries to rejuvenate both his career and Raymond Chandler's influential private detective Philip Marlowe with this polished, post-modern, and weirdly geriatric take on 1939's Los Angeles. At first glance, Marlowe may seem like a fine little nostalgia piece, but there's more (or less) than meets the eye here. As William Monahan's script starts taking us through the tropes and locations of the genre, you slowly realize that the movie isn't able to rekindle anything – it just buries every single worn element it touches upon, with a little help from Liam Neeson's tired performance. Among the many things that leave a lot to be desired in this soon-to-be-forgotten production, the casting may well be the least successful. Filmed in Barcelona and Dublin, which may help explain why the movie looks alternately overdone and underwhelming. Alan Cumming is rather fun in his one big scene as an extravagant drug lord.