A nineties movie with a modern fifties feeling. Very nice

Rating: 9/10 (17 October 2004)

L.A. Confidential isn't just the next one in a line of so many Hollywood cop movies. It's so much better than most of them, because this one has a good plot, an interesting structure and really great acting.
Thanks to the different twists you never really know the characters. You think you do, but as the movie progresses, the characters just aren't who you thought they were. The ones that you would love to hate seem to be OK in the end and the nice ones end up to be really awful people. All the actors made the characters very believable. I really loved all of them, but if I have to choose one, it will be Danny DeVito. He's absolutely fabulous as the tabloid journalist who would do really everything for an interesting story about one of Hollywood's stars and starlets...
The movie has an authentic and unique feeling. I would call this some kind of film noir, in color. However it just isn't exactly that either. In fact it is a movie without any specific style. The decors, the costumes, the cars... everything makes you believe that you are watching a movie that was shot in the fifties and not in the nineties. The only thing convincing you from the opposite is the fact that it was shot in color.
I guess you'll have to see it for yourself to know what I mean. I even think you have to see it several times to get the complete feeling and to fully appreciate the movie. Movies like this are classics from the day they were made and will still be classics in 30 to 40 years. I give it a 9/10.