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Not too bad as a concept and story. I like it's historical accuracy. However, I think things could be sparked up a bit by a different cast. Not sure why but I kept imagining Leonard Nimoy in the lead role or perhaps someone totally off the wall like Tom Waits. Yes, the set design was spot on and the costumes were brilliant all around. Tom Hardy's top hat even had a spider web on it in one shot! Now that's detail for you-and very British if I do say so. As British as a lot of the characters' bad teeth or the chemist tasting a piece of cow turd in one scene. Bravo and just try to think of different actors next time.

...more like going down a corn hole. A poorly interpreted Marlowe. Robert Mitchum was much better. This dialogue here was muddy and dull. The acting was okay but I really expected much much more given the iconic nature of the material and the legendary status of Raymond Chandler's novel and character. The writing should have been lighter and more vicious. I do think old Hollywood was better portrayed in films like Chinatown. Hard to compete with such classics but Hollywood really does like to eat itself for dinner and then feel satisfied that the fried chicken was too deeply fried in old and rank grease.

A film with maybe two moments worth of a half smile. Other than that, it's not even worth the moniker of "mindless entertainment." Perhaps "mindless" would do if the acting and dialogue weren't so trite, predictable and classless. The actors should be so ashamed of themselves. What ever happened to Andy Garcia that he would resort to doing a movie as empty and aggressively inane as this? And poor Venezuela! A country that's really suffering does not need a movie like this so ignorantly using it as a backdrop for American idiocies that are guised in the form of "entertainment." The time, energy and money could have been used for so many other helpful ways. This movie just help increase human ignorance.