Calling this movie "The Black Dahlia" should be akin to calling the first Bill & Ted movie "Bill & Ted Go To The Circle K".
To attempt to have the storyline centered solely on the murder is not what this movie is about. There's a boxing subplot, Scarlett's pimp ex-boyfriend getting out of jail, Josh's dad who's nutty and likes to shoot pigeons from his apartment window, and it's among other distractions.
Fiona unwinds the plot in an unbelievable manner. The majority of the cast is wasted by poor direction from DePalma. Mia is amazing. Aaron gives it his best as well. However, again DePalma did not let us see into Aaron's character with his obsessiveness over the Dahlia.
The costumes, cinematography, set decorations, and period-ness of it are so beautiful. The Busy Berkeley-esquire dance numbers - whoa!
It is such a shame that the movie as a whole is atrocious. Atrocious like Bonfire of the Vanities and Mission to Mars.
The trailer on its own is better than the movie as a whole itself. At least in the trailer there was evocative music by Death in Vegas with their song "Dirge". It had an air of haunting invitation as to what was to come. Unfortunately, DePalma ruined the movie.
To attempt to have the storyline centered solely on the murder is not what this movie is about. There's a boxing subplot, Scarlett's pimp ex-boyfriend getting out of jail, Josh's dad who's nutty and likes to shoot pigeons from his apartment window, and it's among other distractions.
Fiona unwinds the plot in an unbelievable manner. The majority of the cast is wasted by poor direction from DePalma. Mia is amazing. Aaron gives it his best as well. However, again DePalma did not let us see into Aaron's character with his obsessiveness over the Dahlia.
The costumes, cinematography, set decorations, and period-ness of it are so beautiful. The Busy Berkeley-esquire dance numbers - whoa!
It is such a shame that the movie as a whole is atrocious. Atrocious like Bonfire of the Vanities and Mission to Mars.
The trailer on its own is better than the movie as a whole itself. At least in the trailer there was evocative music by Death in Vegas with their song "Dirge". It had an air of haunting invitation as to what was to come. Unfortunately, DePalma ruined the movie.