Halfway through Nightcrawler I realized something. The film had washed over me,and ultimately engrossed me in was a wave of just adrenaline,and bliss. I also realized it would be to my fault to allow it to do that seeing how it may heavily alter my perceptions about what was good,and bad about the film. Then I thought "What the hell" the film put me here it'll have to take me out. It didn't. From the first shot Nightcrawler had me. The colorful neon of the L.A. skyline at night burned with intensity, and then the cut happened,and we all laid our eyes on Lou Bloom. Not Jake Gyllenhaal, Lou Bloom. He's a thin man who has a calm demeanor,and eyes that seem to bulge out of his head. He seems off,but seems just civil enough to be convincing, but no there is something very wrong with Lou Bloom. Lou comes across a crash,and realizes a job opportunity in filming the crash could make him money with local news stations. He creates a company,and recruits a person. The rest just flows. Jake Gyllenhaal is putting on career best work. I think he will win a Best Actor. Lou is as I said calm,but he's also very intense. When he starts to break the law on his job his excitement escalates,and it does for us as well. Nightcrawler almost seems like a ticking time bomb simply based on the character development of Lou Bloom. There's a scene where he films a house of people that were part of a lethal home invasion. He's quiet,and intense. He films the it with grace quietly. We slowly on the edge of our seats wait for him to pop to show any sign of disturbance. I don't even think he did. Also fantastic,and really making an impression is Rene Russo,and Riz Ahmed. Russo is debuting director Dan Gilroy's wife,and she is just great. Gilroy also wrote the screenplay,and it is super as well. Ahmed plays Bloom's employee, and gives quite a good starting performance. And that's not the only thing that helps the film flow is the fantastic stuff they do with a car here. Lou,and Richard (Riz) have to make it to crime scenes before the other news guys do. So they have to drive fast. The camera swoops with speed around the cars. It's all a rush. This is particularly well used in a chase that happens near the end of the film. This is incredibly intense. But then again Nightcrawler is just that wave flowing on with all it's good things intact. Then you get the ending. That was perfect. The film wraps up quickly,but is still incredibly effectively leaving you on a note of being so thrilled from the chase before,and so scared of Bloom himself. This is one of the best films of the year. I give Nightcrawler a 10 out of 10. Please comment below I would love to hear what you thought about the films that I reviewed. Thank you for visiting.
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