Word: hartnett
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...pugilist detectives Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett) and Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart) are asked to investigate the brutal murder. The detectives' relationship is complicated by the fact that Bleichert has fallen in love with Blanchard’s long-suffering girlfriend Kay (Scarlett Johansson...
...Though the script is rather terrible--at one point Hartnett says, “I just don’t get modern art” and Swank replies, “I doubt it would get you either”--the acting is what truly sinks “The Black Dahlia...
...Though he constantly looks like he has just been punched in the face, Hartnett tries his darnedest to be a serious actor and acquits himself decently. Johansson merely manages to look sexy in 40’s outfits and accomplishes nothing in her role. Eckert is predictably volatile and under utilized. Swank is just bizarre...
...surprise partaker in police corruption, but since most of the film's other police officers are seen to be honest, if rather dull, fellows, this plot strand doesn't elicit much shock or insight, either. But the silliest aspect of the film is the relationship that develops between Hartnett's Bucky and an heiress named Madeleine Linscott (Hillary Swank). They meet in a lesbian bar (more L.A. decadence for you), but she turns out to be resolutely heterosexual, very rich and-need we say it?-that most conventional of film noir figures, the spider woman luring the besotted male close...
They meet cute, albeit somewhat bloodily. Bucky (Josh Hartnett) is the baby-faced innocent. Lee (Aaron Eckhart) is the hard case. They're both cops and they're both boxers. They bond while beating one another to pulps in a boxing match for the benefit of a police charity. They become detective-partners and further buddy up in a chaste, yet sexually charged, relationship with a mysteriously damaged woman named Kay Lake (Scarlett Johansson). Their relationship is sealed (and ultimately undone) by their assignment to the eponymous Black Dahlia case...