Lonely Hearts

Millennium Films | Release Date: April 13, 2007

7.2	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 18 Ratings

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JayM.Apr 8, 2008

Criminally overlooked noir.

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MarieM.Aug 21, 2007

Unfortunately, Selam Hayack can't act. When that's combined with her being incredibly badly miscast in this role, it's a disaster. The real-life character her role is based on was a morbidly obese woman. If they'd cast Unfortunately, Selam Hayack can't act. When that's combined with her being incredibly badly miscast in this role, it's a disaster. The real-life character her role is based on was a morbidly obese woman. If they'd cast someone appropriate - say, somone who coudld, I don't know - ACT - the movie really could have worked. The rest of the cast was there and the script wasn't tbad. Instead, Hayack is walking around around in the same red lipstick she wears in every movie being Selma Hayack and it's impossible to forget who she is. It's a shame, too, because Jared Leto is really, really good here.… Expand

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HotelCentralJan 12, 2020

The problem with this film is that it can't decide if it's a detective flick, a caper flick, or a Lifetime TV soap opera character study. Travolta plays a police detective haunted by his wife's suicide and what that's all about I don't knowThe problem with this film is that it can't decide if it's a detective flick, a caper flick, or a Lifetime TV soap opera character study. Travolta plays a police detective haunted by his wife's suicide and what that's all about I don't know because as I'm writing this I haven't finished the film because I don't think I can endure it.

Why the film pretends to be set on Long Island (filmed in Florida) I can't say and I'm not inclined to spend the time to find out. The main point of interest, for me, is discovering that the real-life Fernandez and Beck were executed in Sing-Sing by the same guy who executed accused spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. His name was Joe Francel and he was an electrician when not serving as NY's official executioner from 1939 to 1953. He's said to have executed 137 people at $150 a pop, which is pretty good money for the forties. You can look him up.

As to "Lonely Hearts," by comparison, I make no particular recommendation.

P.S.: Another reviewer correctly points out that the real-life Beck was no glamorous Hollywood actress and in fact was rather overweight, as opposed to the screen version of Beck, played by Selma Hayek.… Expand

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