What started off being slightly confusing soon settled into an interesting film that reminded me of L.A. Confidential in it's setting, period, storytelling and style. A high compliment indeed. The cast (Aaron Eckhart, Josh Hartnett and Scarlett Johansonn) were great throughout and the plot quite intriguing. I believe it was even loosely based on a real murder case from the early days of Hollywood.
I really enjoyed it, buy sadly only for about the first three quarters of the movie. There came a point, when the mystery began to unravel and things started getting 'explained', at which point I somehow lost all hope for a satisfactory ending. I think it was because they tried to make everything just a bit cleverer and more intricate than was really credible and this broke my attachment to the characters. By the end I found it hard to care what they would come up with next.
There was a fairly memorable head smash that reminded me of some kind of reverse Hot Fuzz. I also wonder if the love triangle was only really interesting because one corner was Scarlett Johansson.
The Black Dahlia
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