Nightcrawler

Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed(Rick)
Director: Dan Gilroy
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama


A performance oriented movie by Jake Gyllenhaal backed by a thrilling storyline. Worth a watch!



You may look forward to:

• Jake Gyllenhaal owns this movie. He plays a character who is selfish, manipulative, egoistic and partly psychic. very complex description and easily the best performance by him till date. He is the backbone of the entire thriller and deserves a huge round of applause
• Dan Gilroy does a brilliant job of presenting it, every minuscule expression from Jake Gyllenhaal and the background around, all exclusively done
• Rene Russo has a real time difficult role, being a boss ain't always easy. Well, there you go :)
• Riz Ahmed is another interesting character, the way he is being played and risked, rocks your mind until some time

What you can sleep over:

A bit part of gory content, if you are allergic to it :)



The dampeners you should be aware of:

There were quite a few unrealistic viewpoints to the movie, it seemed a lot of times like playing with the fire with calculated risk, as if the risks were all staged for 'Louis Bloom' to get past. He plays with not one but many lives, of completely different backgrounds and not caught a single time. Little difficult to digest. Be it playing with a high profile lady Director of a news channel, or be it with the full blown criminals, or fellow reporters or cops or even an idiot assistant who just blindly follows his every step without a signed job contract, and none intelligent enough or alert enough to nail him! Whacko!




My Rating: 3.5/5