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There is some strong work here, but too many misfires.
The story of Fernandez and Beck may be grotesque comedy, but Todd Robinson tells it straight, without flinching from its piteousness, horror, or banality.
When Hayek and Leto are onscreen, you do not look away.
It's with the focus on the police, though, that the script fails to truly connect.
This is the version that's easily forgettable.
Leto's layered performance as the nattily dressing dandy with no remorse is truly impressive.
Un buen ejemplo de cine negro, género fuera de moda que aún conserva su encanto.
Noir-ish murder tale is far too dark for kids.
A good, not great, movie that benefits from nice period detail and some strong performances (especially Hayek and Leto), even if the real-life Beck was a heavyset, homely mess not anywhere near as attractive as Hayek.
There are just two extras on the disc: a modestly interesting 'making of' featurette and a good sized collection of movie trailers.
Except for the fact that innocent lives are lost here, it would be easy to walk away from Lonely Hearts saying "so what?".
Hayek's alluring temptress persona reinvents Beck's obese nag as a sexed up femme fatale, in an exceedingly odd way trumping Leto's wimpy, henpecked unconvincing womanizer.
A consistently entertaining and occasionally gut-wrenching tale that deserves at least some measure of notice.
The only juice in Lonely Hearts comes from the thousands of volts shooting through the electric chair in which Martha and Ray are executed in back-to-back scenes that are disturbingly detailed and drawn out.
Most astute is Leto's impeccable representation of an amoral snake of a man with the looks and sociopathology to fulfill the requirements of his abject trade.
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