A.C.’s Review: Jake
Gyllenhal stars as scrap metal thief who discovers that the world of
videoing of crimes, traffic accidents or “anything that bleeds will
lead” on the Los Angeles
local TV stations in far more profitable. Soon he sets himself up in
his own business complete with a low paid assistant and begins selling
exclusively to a station. As his videos begin to boost the ratings Jake
tries to leverage that into a romance with the
station news director played by Renee Russo.
However
Gyllenhals characters soon crosses many unethical lines in order to get
the videos, including sabotaging fellow “Nightcrawler” vehicles in
order for him
to be first on the scene. His actions continue to escalate with deadly
consequences.
I
can see why Jake took the role because it clearly has “Oscar Bait”
written all over it as he delivers quite a performance as the disturbed
loner turned Nightcrawler.
However his performance isn’t enough to save the movie, especially one
with a very unsatisfying ending. That is twice now I’ve seen movies like
this. First Gone Girl and now Nightcrawler where the endings buck the
trend of what you expect. It must be a new
“thing” in Hollywood to upset the audiences expectations of what will
happen.
Best Scene: The climatic series of events he sets in motion by not going to
the police so he can orchestrate the crime video to end all crime
videos.
A.C.’s Rating: DVD
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