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The Black Dahlia [2006]
from Entertainment in Video
starring Aaron Eckhart, Josh Hartnett, Hilary Swank, Scarlett Johansson, Mia Kirshner
directed by Brian De Palma

Features:

• Anamorphic
• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0

• rubbish
  after rubbish film from brian de palma lets hope he has a return to form soon,this is bland, badly acted nonsense

• 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.

• 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.

• 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... more info

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