The Black Dahlia (Widescreen Edition)
by Brian De Palma
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Actor: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, John Kavanagh, Josh Hartnett, Scarlett JohanssonDirector: Brian De Palma
Brand: Universal
Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond
Composer: Mark Isham
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; German (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 122 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-12-26
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of The Black Dahlia (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: This is a movie about the Black Dahila murder? Right?
Summary: 1 Stars
I should have come to Amazon to read the reviews before I rented this movie. This has to be one of the most horrible movies I have seen in my entire life.
First we begin with the Zoot suit riots. Why I'm not really sure..but we do. Then we have a boxing match between two young men who later become partners. Why we have this boxing match I'm not really sure. However, I was eating dinner at the time and I must have been more focused on my salad than the movie.
Anyway, Lee Blanchard and Bucky Bleichert are cops investigating pimps, I think. They are partners and there is some sexual tension because Bucky like Lee's wife (at least I think she is his wife). Finally 20 or 25 minutes into the movie we finally get into the Black Dahila murder. Our detectives stumble upon the crime scene because they happened to be in the neighborhood.
What happens next is mostly about the men's lives. We get bits and pieces of the Black Dahila's murder, but not enough to keep my interested in this movie and I nearly drifted off to sleep three times (after I finished eating). There are four different plots going on at once which makes this movie bloated.
The detectives' storyline is the main plot to this story which was aggravating to this viewer. If they wanted the Black Dahila murder to be a subplot, fine, but could it have been a little more prominent than what we got?
The book maybe better. I dont know because I haven't read it. Although books always tend to be better than movies. Still, go with the reviews on this. The majority of Amazon costumers believe this movie is bad, and they are right. Try the book before you rent this piece of garbage.
Summary of The Black Dahlia (Widescreen Edition)
The black dahlia is set in 1940s l.A. Two cops bucky bleichert & his partner lee blanchard investigate the death of elizabeth short a young woman found brutally murdered. Bucky soon realizes his girlfriend had ties to the deceased & soon after that he begins uncovering corruption in the police department. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 01/08/2008 Starring: Josh Hartnett Aaron Eckhart Run time: 122 minutes Rating: R Director: Brian DepalmaThe Black Dahlia drips with film noir atmospherics as it unspools a lurid and complicated story taken from James Ellroy's true-crime-inspired novel of 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 as they pursue the killer of a young would-be actress, grappling with corruption, narcissism, stag films, and family madness along the way. L.A. Confidential turned Ellroy's heated prose into a taut, compelling movie, but The Black Dahlia collapses like a soggy meringue. Director Brian De Palma (who once made such vibrant, entertaining movies as Carrie and The Untouchables) can't muster the energy to craft one of his trademark bravura action sequences and seems outright bored by the more mundane tasks of shaping performances and establishing mood. The actors flounder; Eckhart seems to be emoting for two, perhaps to compensate for Hartnett's bland lack of affect; even actresses as dependable as Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation) and Hilary Swank (Boys Don't Cry) give clumsy, unconvincing performances. The one exception is an unsettling performance by Mia Kirshner (Exotica) as the doomed actress, seen only in perverse screen tests and stag films. The story is incomprehensible (and when you can follow it, it's silly); the dialogue is atrocious; the characters make hardly any sense from scene to scene. The movie is, however, good for many moments of absurd camp, such as when Bucky enters the most lavish, palatial lesbian bar you'll ever see, featuring a Busby-Berkeley-style stairway of smooching babes and a crooning k.d. lang. --Bret Fetzer
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