After hearing of the hoopla about this film all these years, I recently got to watch it start to finish. Not sure what the hype was about. It was a bit of a mess as stories go and utterly forgettable. 🤷♂️
“I recently got to watch [the Maltest Falcon] start to finish. ... It was a bit of a mess as stories go and utterly forgettable.”
I read the book. It’s like the movie as you describe it.