Best movie of this year hands down!

Please don't spend money on this.

Absolutely Fantastic

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

What a great film! I love the snappy lines of film noir and this film did not disappoint :) It got a little convoluted in one part but overall held together pretty well.

I needed a drink and all the bars were closed - Raymond ChandlerFarewell, My Lovely is a film that can be enjoyed for the visuals alone, especially the awesome set design. Dick Richards the director treats us to a pallet of neon, blue and yellow lights. even though some of the rooms and alleyways are dinghy, you wish that you lived during the time. The lush score by David Shire (who also did the score for The Conversation) evokes the smell of alcohol and cigarette smoke in a bar.Robert Mitchum is very good as Marlowe, though maybe a bit too old. Obviously a lot of the clever dialogues were written by Chandler for his novel. The plot is preposterous but the dialogues and the visuals keep you going.Jack O Halloran who played Moose Malloy didn't really cut it. Nobody can replace Mike Mazurki in Murder, My Sweet (1944). Sylvester Stallone makes an impression in a guest appearance as one of the heavies who kidnaps Mitchum. Charlotte Rampling was smoking hot though I'm not sure if she looked very American. I liked this film a lot.(8/10)

"Farewell My lovely" is a pretty good take on Raymond Chandler's novel, and Robert Mitchum makes a great screen Marlowe; he's a little older and a little more weather-beaten than Bogart in the role. Interestingly, Chandler always thought Cary Grant would have been the right choice for the part - who'd have thought? Set around 1940, Marlowe gets involved in two cases that eventually join together. Moose Malloy, played by ex-heavyweight boxer Jack O'Halloran, hires him to find Velma, the girlfriend he hasn't seen in seven years - he's been 'in the can'.Marlowe is also hired to find jewellery belonging to rich old Judge Grayle (Jim Thompson) and his sexy young wife Helen (Charlotte Rampling). The body count mounts as the strands come together and Marlowe expounds his world-weary philosophies on just about everything. The film is peppered with characters that have been dealt a bad hand by life, but they are people Marlowe relates to.It was uncomfortable to get on the wrong side of Mitchum. He seemed to have built in radar that detected any kind of pretence and his comments in an interview with Roger Ebert about the director of the film, Dick Richards, were harsh.He also didn't seem to feel the mystique of Charlotte Rampling, dismissing her, according to Lee Server's biography of Mitchum, as "the chick who did the S&M movie 'The Night Porter'". However Charlotte Rampling, clothed and styled to recall Lauren Bacall, brings an enigmatic quality to her role, the camera loves her in her few short scenes.The film has a similar retro feel to "Chinatown". Both had great scores, and David Shire didn't spare the alto sax creating an evocative work to rival Jerry Goldsmith.Marlowe as played by Mitchum is a guy who knows deep truths about human nature; he's been knocked around and has felt pain - he understands you even if he has to shoot you. It's a quality that works well in this 40-year old movie.

The best of the more modern renditions of Forties' detective noir films ; this is the second adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel, is much closer to the source text than the original . Featuring world-weary private eye Philip Marlowe (magnificent Robert Mitchum as a serviceable and seen-it-all detective) chasing for an ex-inmate's (Jack O'Halloran) lost girlfriend in 1941 Los Angeles . Meantime , there happens various murders and Marlowe being interrogated by Police Inspectors (John Ireland , Harry Dean Stanton) . The eye private becomes involved into a dark world of killing , treason and leading in twisted results .This interesting , hard-boiled film packs thrills , suspense , mayhem , and employs flashback fashion in ever-twisting directions , using that crisp Raymond Chandler narrative . The picture offers a nicely detailed production design by Dean Tavoularis who designed The Godfather . This is a remake and only a pace behind the Dick Powell original , using the novel's title from the first recreation titled ¨Murder my sweet¨(1944) by Edward Dmytryck starred by Dick Powell , Claire Trevor , Mike Mazurki and Otto Kruger . Very good acting by Robert Mitchum , even at 57 , as a down-on-his-luck detective who searches an ex-convict's sweetheart . This is a breakthrough dramatically for the great Robert Mitchum , at his best . Charlotte Rampling is stunning as a Femme Fatale and does quite a nice imitation of Lauren Bacall . Excellent support cast plenty of veteran actors as John Irekand , Sylvia Miles , Harry Dean Stanton , Anthony Zerbe and introducing the massive Jack O'Halloran . Furthermore , there's an early screen character for Silvester Stallone who along with Joe Spinell play the bad guys .Classic cinematographer John A. Alonzo prowls his camera menacingly through some wonderfully seedy neo-Forties settings . Evocative and atmospheric musical score by David Shire , including enjoyable leitmotif . This agreeable thick-ear thriller was well directed by Dick Richards , recreating compellingly this thrilling story , perhaps the most accurate of Chandler adaptations , and whose best movie this is . Furthermore , Dick gets to remain the mystery and suspense until the final . Before entering the film industry , Dick Richards was a contributing photographer for Life magazine , subsequently turning into filmmaking , he is a good craftsman who has directed a few films but of great quality , such as ¨The Culpepper Cattle¨, ¨March or die¨ , Death valley¨ and ¨Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins ¨, in addition , he found the script for 'Tootsie' and co-produced it with Sydney Pollack . Rating : above average , essential and indispensable watching this Chandler's favorite version .