Highly Overrated But Still Good

As Good As It Gets

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

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.

Two policemen see their personal and professional lives fall apart in the wake of the "Black Dahlia" murder investigation. The Black Dahlia has an impressive and talented cast but it's a poor man's Sin City and a poor film Noir and what makes it a suprising failure is that it was directed by Brian De Palma (Scarface, Carlito's Way and Mission Impossible). The overall plot is also boring and the characters are so bland, overall a waste of time and talent. (0/10)

I saw a trailer for Black Dahlia. It suggested the movie would be too intense for most people. They lied.Most of the movie is watching Josh Hartnett and the other players smoke. Granted people in the 1940s idled there lives away chain smoking, but from a cinematic view, it is B O R I N G.Most of the first half of the movie seems to be about endless unconnected routine police work. In the second half, the complex chains of criminal motivation are explained. However, they are so intricate, they made no sense at all to me.Mr Hartnett is very handsome. They often show him shirtless, and even with his bare bum. However, the character he plays has all the charisma of a boiled turnip. Every once in a while, he explodes in anger. I could not understand what triggered him. Normally he is very phlegmatic.The two female leads I found repulsive. They are airheads. They do nothing with their lives. They try to manipulate men with Mae West crudity and vamping about in lingerie. They are just silly.Fiona Shaw, as the wealthy, conceited, tipsy, candid mother was a hoot. Her performance was over the top, but the movie needed something to grab your attention.

The only thing I got out of this is that Scarlett Johannson should at some point play Lana Turner."The Black Dahlia" is a 2006 Brian De Palma film starring Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, Scarlett Johannson, and Hillary Swank.However, don't let the title fool you. The 67-year-old unsolved Black Dahlia murder is only a subplot in this film, which primarily seems to be about the relationship between two former fighters turned homicide detectives, Bucky (Hartnett) and Lee Eckhart), and Lee's girlfriend Kay (ScarJo).In working on the Black Dahlia case in 1947 Los Angeles, Dwight gets mixed up with a wealthy but whacked out family, the Linscotts, where one of the daughters (Swank) resembles the Dahlia. Hillary Swank is a wonderful actress and a lovely woman, but she's not sexy, and I really didn't pick up any chemistry between her and Hartnett.The photography, atmosphere, and '40s depictions are of the highest quality. The story is gritty,slow, convoluted, and you really don't care about any of the characters. Style over substance.