Plain and simple: the cinematography is great and the film noir mood is amazingly authentic, but the plot is so disorganized it almost makes the film not worth watching. I’m not quite sure what story they were trying to tell, but the focus on the famous Black Dahlia murder only took up about 10% of the film. So, as someone who had a preexisting interest in the facts surrounding the murder, it not only lacked the story I was hoping for, but the story it DID tell was delivered so poorly that any chance of redeeming itself was lost.