Liam Neeson is one of those actors I kinda envy. While I’m obviously not saying that being a professional actor is easy, I have to say that things do seem easier for those who literally talk and behave the same seemingly throughout every movie they’re a part of and being able to get away with it as if it’s just normal? Is this what they label as a typecast actor? I’ve watched this dude since his Qui-Gon Jinn days in The Phantom Menace, which was way back in 1999, and since then, all other movies I’ve seen him in he literally talks with the same cadence and tone! It don’t matter if bro is a killer assassin, running from the law or playing a private detective, you can’t mistake him for anyone else. Here in Marlowe, we see Liam playing as Philip Marlowe against a late 1930s Los Angeles setting. Hired to find a lover gone missing, we follow him as he works his way through the usual gang of suspicious people he encounters in a noir type backdrop.

I honestly don’t have much to say about this movie? As a disgraced member of the police force, Marlowe just seems worn out on-screen due to all the corruption going on as was normal back in those days. It seems like he’s just going through the motions to get his pension back? These movies are always incredible to film, mainly because of all the tedious work of having to find the right props used during that era. The plot was mediocre at best. At no time throughout the movie did I felt really compelled to discover the reason why Nico had to be found. If it’s not money, then it likely had to do with information he was not supposed to be in possession of was my best guess. In the end, it goes to show that in that era, you really can’t trust anyone.

I’m not putting off Liam. At age 70+, the guy is still doing it on the big screen, and starring in them at that. That’s major props. His gruffly signature voice really does tend to support this Marlowe character now that I think reflect upon it. The movie is worth a watch. I think it deserves a slightly higher rating than 5.4 from IMDb. But only slightly more.