emmatheballerina This movie tried to be too many things and not really sure what kind of movie it's suppose to be. Sometimes it's a murder mystery, sometimes it's a love story, sometimes it's a thriller. The camera work was inconsistent and I feel like The Black Dahlia was just a background story. Which would be fine, but the movie is called Black Dahlia, so you go in thinking it's going to be about her with smaller stories supporting the major plot. Not a movie I would watch twice, but it's good enough if nothing else strikes your interest and you want to see some decent enough acting.

Floated2 The Black Dahlia is a true based crime story based upon the investigation of murder of upstart Hollywood actress. As a film, it tries hard to be a 1940s-style film noir, but ends up bearing an uncanny resemblance to a comedy spoof. The self-serious dialogue, interspersed with goofy lines and goofier story turns one can only assume are knowing comic relief, is not only tonally destructible, but also an offensive, unsolved real-life crime. The film's pacing is quite slow and doesn't become interesting more than halfway through. With an unsettling ending, the film doesn't bring in enough intrigue or suspense of sorts.

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Harrison Johnstone The Black Dahlia is an intellectual property with such raw possibility that has honestly been massacred by the poor direction of this film. It seemed somewhat rushed as though it was attempting to capitalise on some trending 1950's noir-esque theme. What was encapsulated quite well in this film was the nuances of the time period the film was recreating, however, I wish I could remark on more compelling positives but they were scarce indeed. There's such talent present in the cast but the plot seemingly lacks purpose and events that occur allow the audience to ask questions that are never followed with answers and not in the thrilling 'it's for the audience to draw their own conclusions' kind of way either. Honestly having Scarlett Johansson, Aaron Eckhart and to an extent Josh Hartnett and wasting their exceeding talent on a movie so poorly formulated is disgraceful. To those searching for a movie closely related but possessing a fictitious retelling of the original Black Dahlia case will be sorely disappointed as the lack of reality based conclusions the film draws leaves confusion as its greatest legacy. The relationships between the characters seem strained and portrayals too deliberate as the use of period based slang is used somewhat over-zealously shredding what relative credibility the story had left. The development of characters such as Lee (Eckhart) was disjointed and uninteresting but again I must emphasise the potential in his character as clichéd as the obsessive detective is it was so valid in this piece and yet so poorly executed as the confusion left by the conflicting subplots overshadows the importance of his role. The ending was neat enough and does a decent job of settling up the narrative of a film that from this small section seems entirely too long. Essentially 'The Black Dahlia' favours confusing plot and convoluted sub-plot over well grounded and interesting narrative and character development.