The Black Dahlia [2006]

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Customer reviews

review by: martin thomas date: 2008-06-07 rating:
rubbish
after rubbish film from brian de palma lets hope he has a return to form soon,this is bland, badly acted nonsense

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review by: date: 2008-03-07 rating:
Make notes, I'll be asking questions later.
A complex who-dunnit with a good layer of Raymond Chandler hard-boiled dialogue laid on a specific era in America. You need to keep your wits about you to follow the plot which has more twists than a very twisty twisted thing. It isn't LA Confidential but it's not bad if you enjoy processing clues.

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review by: DocMcD date: 2008-01-13 rating:
Disappointing
Looking forward as I was to a repeat performance from the LA confidential school of cinema, I was astonished how bad this film was. Impenetrable dialogue, ludicrously convoluted and unbelievable plot, and a totally wasted presence of the talented Scarlett Johansen. Like some of the other reviewers, I had this on my 'must see' list for the cinema but couldn't make it - glad I didn't.

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review by: Black Bag Eddie date: 2007-12-31 rating:
Clumsy film based on a bad book
I read the boring book years ago and that was very slow to start with - all that boxing and buddy bonding stuff that ate up far too much of the book and, in this case, the film, before getting to the nitty gritty, which in itself is treated at times more as a side issue. The film - like the book - lacks focus. There's the murder. There's a hunt for a secondary criminal. There's a cop's decline through drugs. There's a love affair. Police politics. Boxing. It's all over the place, although the pieces do come together (perhaps more by luck than judgement). On the plus side, the post-2nd WW period is fairly effectively done, but still suffers from the odd amateur element (like the punch-up between sailors and others near the beginning, which looked far too contrived). Hmmm, I gave this three but thinking more about it.....


review by: scoon2 date: 2007-12-02 rating:
Black Marks For This
The main trouble with this movie is that Brian De Palma thought he was making a screen noir type film. However,he seems to have forgotten this along the way and added in a bit more blood, sex and profanity than is normal for such films.Not that these additions add any more excitement as the end result is extremely dull and ends like a damp firework.

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