An absolute knockout

Rating: 10/10 (11 January 2009)

Much can be said about the "catching lighting in a bottle" cast selection of this movie or its fantastic direction but LA CONFIDENTIAL's biggest merit is being the rarest of cases in which the most convoluted of the plots will have you confused and guessing 90% of the time but you'll still be enjoying it to 100% capacity. I've seen the film over a dozen times and every time I see it I realize something new (my level of the movie's understanding might be up to +/-95% by now). To think I wasn't interested in going to see this movie until word of mouth got me to ! Hard to believe there was somebody in Hollywood willing to take a chance on the unknown Australian actors for a major studio film's main roles but the results speak for themselves. One of the best movies of all time, period.