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Right from the beginning this is a disappointment. When you see the scene with General Sternwood (Jimmy Stewart), which has none of the excellent, witty and touching dialog of the 1946 movie, that's a bad start. I was distracted by trying to figure out why they left it out and replaced it with nothing. You miss the conversation about trading shots with Sean Regan, about orchids and the perfume of corruption, about having children at too late and age, about enjoying smoke and drink vicariously through other men, about existing largely on heat like a newborn spider. That's just the beginning. This entire movie has what was entertaining dialog of the original movie replaced with blandness and flatness.

Next: The allure gap from Lauren Bacall to Sarah Miles is vast. That's as far as it goes with this review. The rest is ever more disappointment.

Would you believe that a lawyer would be pulled over by cops, and then would answer the following 2 questions: Where are you coming from? How much did you have to drink? No lawyer in this country would answer those questions to a cop at a roadside stop. Yet super lawyer Honey Chandler does. Give me a break.

That's not an important issue in itself, but indicative of the lazy, silly writing that we are seeing pop up all over the place. I would really like to see them try to portray Maddie as a cop without having to drive her plot line with her "on the edge" psych issues. How about letting her be a regular person who has cop drama, and not a head-case with cop drama. Don't the writers have confidence they can do better by this character?

The list of disappointments is long. I wish the quality of Bosch (pre-final season) could return.