the man with bogart face set it self up to mine the viewer nostalgia for the late 30 late 40 film era . it fail miserably for several reason . first and sacchi and while look reasonably like bogart and even speak like him on occassion and use his mannerism and completely lack any of bogart charisma or act ability . this be really apparent whenever sacchi be not clearly imitate a scene from one of bogart film . second and the film do not have the first rate character actor bogart be able to work with . there be no peter lorre or sydney greenstreet in this one and folk . sure we be treat to performance by victor buaeno and olivia hussey and george raft amongst others and but they just aren not of the same caliber ( or aren not give enough screen time or be miscast ) . third and the attempt at modern humor all fall through . all of the underwear joke and have marlowe almost never remove that damn hat and trench coat ( even though bogart would have ) and etc . just aren not funny and really pull down this film . fourth and i have never hear a goofy theme song this side of mitchell . finally and the film false reverence for bogart ( and other classic actor work ) be truly irritate . bogart almost never play a straight hero and on those occasion he be a hero . he play complicated character . this movie make bogart out to be a trigger happy and moralistic do gooder . while this may have be true about some film character and bogart character rarely fit that bill . it movie like this that make people unexposed to the cinema of the past think that all of it be hokey and good guy beat the bad guy and get the girl crap with low production value .