Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

InspireGato Film Perfection

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

elshikh4 Small nice film indeed with a lot of funny stuff and good meanings to be said. You'd feel sometimes that it was made by some people whom lived all their life in love with (Humphrey Bogart)'s old movies as the sarcastic dusty typical detective of the 1940s and now they saw themselves as a too much of a viewer ! too naive to be (Bogart) in real life, so they brought that sense of lost idealism, wished for heroism, and that desire to be movie makers (or even a movie's lead !) all on screen to answer the tricky question.. Where is Marlowe ?! There are some interesting and amusing points in that indie movie : The deep and uncomplicated scrip, the unique cinematography by video which's done by successful realistic taste being like true events, the idea of the blind seller as all the personalities are blinded in a way but who actually can see that about himself first to admit it and then fix it, the idea of their first documentary about "Water"; it's everyone's experiment ! As those 2 well-meaning artists are still so childish and without experience yet !, and also in the purity of that distilled water, in fact they needed all the time to distil something out of their life which was simply empty, and also not to distil something out of other's (detective Joe Boone) without being in his shoes or having his own tribulations !(Boone) was right when he told them about how lousy and boring their first movie was. Because there is no actual thing was happening, it's tasteless as water ! Yet when they were right in the middle of a hot one; that was moving indeed. So he told them clearly the advise of : "don't be behind that camera too long or most of the time". Because afterwards it becomes such a barrier to feel things, to live the fact, and to make your own point of view, your own original copy of the truth !I also loved the acting which was very simple to a truthful extent with couple of naive blinded kids and one clever unassuming private "eye", who discovered after all that they're in want of each others to learn more about life and how to look at it to find what they really want.So, before you show it you must live it first ! And maybe it's some kind of message that aims for any young artist out there, or anyone thinking that they had all the facts from their only conceited perspective. Hence "Where is Marlowe ?!" well.. He's not in movies only but he is here and there. He is in our own selves, but who can be wide-open eyes to see him, having that great lively well to bring him out perfectly ! As (Sam Spade), (Philip Marlowe), or any other fantastic idealistic hero is possible, coming first from the factual life and from one hell of a struggling human practice.

deadsenator Channel surfing one night, saw Miguel Ferrer, stopped flicking and I'm so glad I did. How do movies like this not make more impact at the box office? Probably because there are no explosions or chase scenes and the audience was forced to think. Ahh, the horrors of having to think. Bullets don't fly around, but boy does the plot ever! I found myself thoroughly entertained throughout and even a bit confused sometimes, but I think that was the idea. Solid performances from everyone, including the script and direction. The camera work was excellent. Miguel Ferrer is a wonderful actor and more surprising than the standard top ten Hollywood throws at us nonstop. Miguel, this piece of work is rock solid. Keep it up.

ronnie-19 I rented this movie last night without any idea of what it was, but even though it might have been rated as a one star movie, strangely I enjoyed it. It really flip-flopped around a lot and it was hard to keep track of the characters at times, but it was really pretty funny as a satire of P.I. movies. I got to rent it for a dollar, and it was surely worth that price. Miguel Ferrer was great as always. Even if a movie is so so, his acting is always first class.If you are at the video store, and nothing else looks good, try this one.

folie I definitely agree with previous comments. The movie is delightful! Although this is not the first or best mockumentary around (i.e. not ground breaking), it is a very funny satire without being overly tongue-in-cheek.It took a while to get here (Vancouver, Canada) and probably won't stick around too long (there are 5 people in the Sun matinee screening I attended). That's really sad...it is 10 times more entertaining than most of the mainstream movies playing in the multiplexes.