Inspired by the most infamous Unsolved Murder in California history. From acclaimed director of Scarface and the author of LA Confidential comes the spellbinding thriller The Black Dahlia. Two ambitious officers, Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart) and Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett), investigate the shocking murder of an aspiring young starlet. With a corpse so mutilated that photos kept by the public, the case becomes an obsession for men, and their lives begin to unravel. Relationship with his girlfriend Blanchard (Scarlett Johansson), Kay is deteriorating, while Bleichert are attracted to the enigmatic Madeleine (Hilary Swank), a wealthy woman with a dark and twisted connection to the victim.
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank, Aaron Eckhart, Mia Kirshner, Mike Starr, Fiona Shaw, Patrick Fischler, James Otis, John Kavanagh, Troy Evans, Anthony Russell, Pepe Serna, Angus MacInnis, Rose McGowan Director: Brian De PalmaThe Black Dahlia drips with film noir elements such as history unfolds lurid and complicated by James Ellroy got inspired by the true-crime novel with the same name. Two boxers-turned-cops - Lee "Mr. Fire" Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart, Thank You For Smoking) and Bucky "Mr. Ice" Bleichert (Josh Hartnett, Black Hawk Down) - are morally tested for their potential killer a young actor, fighting corruption, narcissism, stag films, and the madness of the family along the way. LA Confidential turned Ellroy's heated prose in a tight, engrossing film, but The Black Dahlia collapses like a wet meringue.
Director Brian De Palma (who once made such a lively, entertaining movies as Carrie and The Untouchables) can bring any energy to create one of its action sequences and bravery brand seems downright bored by the mundane tasks shows the shape and setting the mood. The actors flounder, Eckhart seems to be emoting for two, perhaps to compensate for the lack of influence fades Hartnett, even as reliable as the actresses Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation) and Hilary Swank (Boys Do not Cry) give clumsy, little convincing performance. The only exception is an unsettling performance by Mia Kirshner (Exotica) as the doomed actress, seen only in perverse screen tests and stag film. The story is incomprehensible (and when you can follow it, it's stupid), the dialogue is atrocious, the characters make little sense from scene to scene. The film is good for many moments of absurd camp, such as when Bucky enters the most sumptuous, a bar of lesbians palace you will ever see, with a Busby Berkeley-style way of smooching girls and kd lang singing. - Bret Fetzer
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank, Aaron Eckhart, Mia Kirshner, Mike Starr, Fiona Shaw, Patrick Fischler, James Otis, John Kavanagh, Troy Evans, Anthony Russell, Pepe Serna, Angus MacInnis, Rose McGowan Director: Brian De PalmaThe Black Dahlia drips with film noir elements such as history unfolds lurid and complicated by James Ellroy got inspired by the true-crime novel with the same name. Two boxers-turned-cops - Lee "Mr. Fire" Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart, Thank You For Smoking) and Bucky "Mr. Ice" Bleichert (Josh Hartnett, Black Hawk Down) - are morally tested for their potential killer a young actor, fighting corruption, narcissism, stag films, and the madness of the family along the way. LA Confidential turned Ellroy's heated prose in a tight, engrossing film, but The Black Dahlia collapses like a wet meringue.
Director Brian De Palma (who once made such a lively, entertaining movies as Carrie and The Untouchables) can bring any energy to create one of its action sequences and bravery brand seems downright bored by the mundane tasks shows the shape and setting the mood. The actors flounder, Eckhart seems to be emoting for two, perhaps to compensate for the lack of influence fades Hartnett, even as reliable as the actresses Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation) and Hilary Swank (Boys Do not Cry) give clumsy, little convincing performance. The only exception is an unsettling performance by Mia Kirshner (Exotica) as the doomed actress, seen only in perverse screen tests and stag film. The story is incomprehensible (and when you can follow it, it's stupid), the dialogue is atrocious, the characters make little sense from scene to scene. The film is good for many moments of absurd camp, such as when Bucky enters the most sumptuous, a bar of lesbians palace you will ever see, with a Busby Berkeley-style way of smooching girls and kd lang singing. - Bret Fetzer
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