Review of The Black Dahlia (2006) by Rackt. — 16 Sep 2006

[***SPOILERS***] 0/5 stars. Yup. ZERO. if a movie is bad, then fine, but this movie was a complete fraud. I was so pissed after seeing this movie. It is not worth a rental. It is not worth an HBO viewing.

I want to start a petition to force them to give everyone back their money. It is like false advertising. I wanted to walk out 45 mintues but didn't. She wouldn't walk out because it was almost over.

I wish I would have gone outside and down manual labor for 2 hours. I have never seen so many people walk out of a movie before. I would guess 14 at least. Ok. This movie is supposed to be based on a true event that is the murder of Elizabeth Short.

But guess what. This movie wasn't even about that! Yup. You heard me right. I felt like I was in the wrong movie for th efirst 35 minutes. It took 35 minutes for the movie to even acknowledge the name of that chick and anotehr 10 mintues for the murder to occur.

So what was the movie about? Well, it was about the story of 2 fictional cops and their relationship!!! Yup. You heard me right. The only thing close to protraying the actual events of what we know happened that night was the following: 1) Elizabeth Short was murdered 2) Her body was cut in half 3) her face sliced from ear to ear.

That was it. That was the entire non-fiction part of the movie. The rest of the movie was a Hollywood make believe story. You never saw Elizabeth Short. You never learned what happened on the night of the murder.

All the movie showed was her just showing up dead in a field. No background. No history. No nothing. The entire plot of the movie was about these 2 damn cops. After that at the end they pieced together a make believe outcome to Short's death and it ended.

Listen. I watched a 60 minute piece on The Black Dahlia on A&E and I know more of what about actually happened then what the director/writer/producer (whoever) even tried to explain. It would have been one thing if things in this movie were just far fetched, but they are impossible and couldn't be further from what is know about the event.

Acccording to all websites and the A&E special the murderer was most likely a doctor or someone in the medical field. In the movie, it was nowhere even close to that (I want to give it away but won't).

Seeing this movie was like going to a movie thinking it is about football only to be watching a tap dance tournament. I was so fucking pissed off. I want my money and my time back. 0/5 stars. ZERO.