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Title: The Black Death
Review: Sort of "The Big Sleep" on meth. De Palma clearly wants to revive the classic film noir experience but has instead created a monster, a movie that is more undead than alive. Who would have guessed just how bad Hillary Swank and Scarlet Johansson could be? It takes an iron will to watch this to the end, but unless you do, you can't truely appreciate the depth to which De Palma is willing to plunge in his exciting denouement. Quite possibly the worst movie of the year, an Ed Wood movie on a major Hollywood budget.
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