The movie that restored my confidence in Hollywood moviemaking.

Rating: 9/10 (16 August 1999)

I love L.A. Confidential. When I saw it for the third or fourth time I realized my confidence in american (and especially Hollywood) movies had grown. A lot. Maybe it was the brilliant story weaved around colourful though stereotyphical characters, maybe it was the amazing complexity plot with subtle and surprising turns, the many ways to interpret the dialogue or simply the sharp edge it had towards Hollywood ideals, sort of hidden, set back in the fifties but aiming at the present as well. Maybe it was all of these reasons. It's a brilliant movie, go watch it!