the usual confidential's.

Rating: 8/10 (23 January 2007)

last night i watched L.A Confidential for the first time and i must say that it was not as perfect as "The Usual Suspects" nor as "Chinatown" were to me.
what it was is a film with a marvelous screenplay including twists that are almost impossible to predict, it had a great Kim Basinger, Russel Crowe and Kevin Spacey that gave exceptional performances.. but above those things i just have mentioned there was 1 thing that made it unique for me and it's the progress of Edmond's character. in the start i really disliked him but along the movie he just managed to get inside my heart and sort of made me understand where his coming from and got me to respect him. i don't remember this happening to me with any other character in any other film.
i think the major flaw of this film is its ending that despite Basinger's finishing line, was much too Hollywoody. another personal flaw is when i watched it , i think that watching this film these days after seeing so much of this film genre makes it hard to fall in love with it like so many have along the last decade.