JoshuaC96

This was a good movie. I thought it was very intelligently written and was also a very enjoyable film. It was a little overpolished and refined, but that's just the type of film it is. I thought the acting was very good. However, I didn't particularly car for Katharine Houghton's performance. I thought she was really bubbly and her voice was too high pitched and sounded childish. She came off as ditsy and naive; not the kind of girl you would assume a super successful and intelligent doctor would be interested in. I think the film might have benefited from a more believable couple. It wasn't necessary to have her character be so effervescent just so they could say things in the film like "oh... she's always been such a happy girl, but I've never seen her more happy" and "she was laughing out loud at six months." For a film like this I think it's crucial for the audience to really be able to believe that the relationship on screen is genuine and strong. It didn't happen for me; I didn't see very much chemistry at all.

There isn't a whole lot to say about the film; It was mostly straightforward. It was very well made, flowed smoothly, and all of the events were clear and understandable. I liked a lot of what was said by the characters, and the story was interesting.

The big sleep was a pretty good movie. The movie has a very consistent mise en scene. It's very dark and shadowy throughout, there are many rainy scenes, and a lot of the movie takes place at night. The story in the film is very interesting and entertaining. Bogart gives a smooth performance, as do all of the actors.

The only bad thing about the movie was that some of it was a little tough to follow. For example, when the main character investigates inside of a car and looks at a tag on the steering column. I had to back it up to see what it said, but I still wasn't quite sure what it was supposed to mean. There were a few other things like that throughout the movie. Also there were a lot of names thrown around and I was never quite able to get a grip on who was who. Eventually it doesn't really matter because the plot goes where it's going to go whether or not you understand, and even if you didn't catch everything that happened you are still able to understand the story's resolution. But still, stuff like that gets annoying and I feel like the filmmakers could have done a better job making things clear.

Overall it's still an entertaining film and I did like it.