Interesting in the way it's a POV-movie, but good? Not really. The acting is terrible, the actors really can't figure out how to speak to the camera.

Yikes, this experiment did not work at all. What was with the choral music? The two main characters are both profoundly unlikeable. I guess they can look forward to a lifetime of sniping at each other.

A failed experiment, but the best kind: a Raymond Chandler adaptation almost entirely in first person from Philip Marlowe. Its not perfect - I know little of the author but I prefer other performances of Marlowe in other films - but it is a true one off, both strange and inspired, and defiantly unforgettable. Gasper Noe is said to have been inspired to make "Enter the Void" after seeing this on acid; frankly, this is a far more original and better film than that one by a country mile.

Interesting but ultimately it ends up as a failed experiment. The POV-gimmick is incredibly annoying and makes the film feel more like a computer game. Somehow it removes the particularly filmic feeling of noir, perhaps because the protagonist, removed from the image, can't be caught in this dark style of anxiety, violence, cynisism and sexuality.

Good detective story, terrible everything else. Shooting the film in POV mode for pretty much the whole thing is a cool idea in theory, but there's no film specific reason for it here and it's really badly executed. The gimmick shots made me cringe, as did the abrupt editing. Combined with mediocre acting and awful use of music the story was barely enough to keep me going to the end.

Audrey Tottor has the funniest double-take expressions of any 40s actress. Robert Montgomery (father of Elizabeth Montgomery of "Bewitched") does a first-person hard-boiled narration that is entertaining. A film noir with a Christmas theme.

The first-person camera will drive you nuts by the end, but there's still some good acting by Montgomery, Totter, Nolan and Jayne.

Thank God this stupid gimmick never caught on. POV didn't work that well in Dark Passage either, but at least that was only half the movie. Here it's the entire thing, and it's absolutely terrible. It never looks natural, it's just completely distracting and awful. Montgomery is perfectly dreadful as Marlowe, and none of the other actors are any good either. The dialogue is also really bad. And the plot is dull! Just a painful experience all around. Interesting as a cinematic curiosity only.

one of the better adaptations of chandler or hamett, i'm not exactly fond of the first person camera style, it got to be rather annoying by the end. it's altogether an enjoyable movie that has its faults.

It's built on a gimmick, which means it lives and dies by how well the gimmick works. A lot of the time it does, but it has it's share of falters too. Really bothered by the use of a score in some scenes because I think it hurts rather than helps the dramatic effect. The main mystery is decent enough, although I didn't find the ending to be that believable.

Absolutely great dialogue and acting in this innovative film noir. Audrey Totter's reactionary expressions are hilarious. Notable for being the first film to employ a first-person POV camera technique.