brian de palma so call film noir have all the aspect of a great film represent detective and gun and murder and a beautiful blonde and an oscar win brunette and and a boxing match . it involve violence and money and pimp and porn and and the most notorious murder in california history . sadly though and the movie just doesn not cut it . the black dahlia isn not about murder and or gun and or pimp or porn . the black dahlia be about the new american dream represent to sleep with scarlett johansson . the dahlia isn not even introduce until a third of the movie be over and the long 45 minute i have ever experience in cinema . a good hour of the movie doesn not have anything to do with the plot and and watch it be just like watch paint dry . much of this waste screen time be attribute to the relationship between sgt . leland lee blanchard ( aaron eckert ) and officer . dwight bucky bleichert ( josh hartnett ) and where we see their transformation from enemy to partner to friend unrealistically fast and which be unrealistically cliché . but the big downside of the movie be josh hartnett . what hartnett be do a a serious actor be beyond me and but his performance be a wooden a they come . it be unbelievable that he be consider for the role of bleichert and and the fact that he be cast really make me lose faith in hollywood mainstream actor . his noir ish voice over be like read word off the script and make it feel less and less like the artsy film de palma intend it to be . the only redeeming feature of the flick be mia kirshner who have about one minute of screen time a the dahlia and but be the most memorable character . oh and yeah and and we do get to see hilary swank as . but overall and the black dahlia be just another bad film to cap off the summer . it be extremely confuse with all it pointless sub plot and and just get annoy at the end . it one of those movie you consider walk out of and and i count down the minute to what i think would be a climactic finale and but be just a series of long monologue and unclear speaking . in the end and we learn little about the dahlia and and be pretty much back where we start and except for a few miss comrade .