Nightcrawler

2014 "The city shines brightest at night"
7.8| 1h58m| R| en| More Info
Released: 31 October 2014 Released
Producted By: Bold Films
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://nightcrawlerfilm.com
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When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.

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andrewroy-04316 Nightcrawler is an extreme example of a narrowly focused character drama: we don't get backstory on Bloom or much detail on the people and events outside of Bloom. Even in studying Bloom, we only see him in action; Gilroy doesn't spend any time showing the time Bloom puts in to prepare for being an independent filmer, it's all shown in his practiced knowledge of minor details and robotic explanations of successful companies. It works extremely well as a character study, as we clearly see Bloom's willingness to do anything to succeed and cold calculation with other people. It did feel a little too easy for him in many regards. His entrance into the industry was surprisingly smooth for someone with zero background experience, and his success with the news company seemed unlikely. His personal threats never came back to bite him, and he somehow never got caught despite his absurdly risky plays on crime scenes. I would imagine the police would be far more aggressive in investigating him than they were; both he and the news company didn't get nearly as much flack as they deserved. Nevertheless, Nightcrawler absolutely keeps you engrossed the entire time and is a fantastic character study of a sociopathic, aggressive main character played in one of the great recent acting performances from the man at the top of the game.
acebreaoeva Jake Gyllenhaal gives one of the best performances ever in this crazy thriller. He should've been nominated for the Oscar to go along with every other award he was nominated for. Despite Jake's character basically being the villain, you can't help but to root for him. A must watch!
El-Dod Nightcrawler is one of the movies that is on the blacklist of the academy for the most awesome movies that they don't appreciate it by nominating it to that number of Oscars it deserves. As for this movie it really should has been nominated for 6 more Oscars and giving a guaranteed one to Jake for his Physically, mentally and Psychologically prepared Performance with his stable reactions that gave with the scenario that both shocking and creepy feeling for the character and made it so realistic to the audience. The movie had too many things that made it look that good , In my opinion, one of them is presenting the character in it's early starts and putting him in different situations that made you both sympathetic with and shocked at him. The screenplay that was perfectly written for the character that added to it mentally and psychologically and made you feel with Jake's performance that you have just a complete character with it's lack of feelings in front of you on screen. The music of the movie was good too and makes you feel intense and excited in some scenes but it's presence lacked in the end. The story is very good and it's characters are good but some other characters weren't either written well or performed well as the female FBI agent. The character of Riz Ahmed was good and he performed it good too. The story's only problem I fell it was the sequence where we were infront of many actions and presenting the character then stopping for the big action in the end that made you feel too much lunacy and strange stable reactions and discovering his mean self that only puts his benefit at first even on other people's lives which made me a little bit bored that we are getting deeper and deeper into showing his psychopath character. Overall the movie is too good with one of the very complex protagonists. Very entertaining in most of it and of course faced injustice . Check it out. 8.5/10
Griffin Dumeer Nightcrawler is the story of Lewis Goldberg, who finds that his true calling is in Freelance photography. The story that follows shows the true grittiness and cutthroat nature of the job, all shown threw the eyes of Lewis, played by the impeccable Jake Gylennhall, who gives one of the greatest performances these eyes have ever seen. He is fascinating and creepy as this loner who is very apathetic towards other humans, and thus has no problem doing certain things, such as moving a dead body, to get the best shot possible to sell to the local news station. This is a difficult role to tackle, and Gylennhall does it with ease. He lost a lot of weight for this movie, and he looks so ghastly, almost supernatural. The best performances are the ones where the actor completely disappears into the role, and Gylennhall does this with flying colors. But the script is also extremely exhilarating. Not once was there a dull moment in the move. It's all extremely intriguing. An absolute must-see.