Nightcrawler (2014)

Are you bored with movies that call them thrillers but offer the same old formula of blood and gore over and over again? Are you sick of stereotype villains and over dramatic performances by the actors in them? Have you lost your faith on thrillers that all the time is so far fetched and has no real meaning by the end? Then to restore your faith on the true colors of a thriller movie and what makes a darn good dark character possible, watch Nightcrawler.

Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) used to be a jobless yet very enthusiastic man desperate to find his way out of the day-to-day petty thefts that makes him survive the day. But now he is a crime journalist doing his own pursuits for crime scenes at night and sells the footage to a local new broadcasting agency. But he is so desperate for a breakthrough story of his career finds an ideal opportunity one night. Lou draws a master plan to put him on the spot of a true crime scene and he is all set to get it on tape.

Nightcrawler’s plot is not common and unheard of. It peaks in to bitter yet very real circumstances of contemporary media culture.  And the movie brings in a very unique kind of a villain who is surprisingly the protagonist of the whole twisted plot. This character is very effectively and powerfully portrayed by the talented Jake Gyllenhaal, who is currently appearing in repeatedly challenging and better roles in his career. After last year’s less talked about yet one of the best of the years psychological thriller Enemy, his performance in Nighcrawler is indeed a plus point.

Nightcrawler has proper flow and very good cinematography. There is no moment where the movie unhooks the viewer from its grip. The plot rapidly grows with the main character and it builds the intensity at the correct phase. This movies is fine at its start middle and end. This is something very rare for a crime thriller and Nightcrawler is brilliant in its nature.

Genre: Crime | Thriller

Director: Dan Gilroy

Rating:  Genre 4.5/5 | Overall 3.5/5