Disappointing and overrated.

Rating: 5/10 (29 April 2005)

Loads of people are going to disagree with me and press the "unhelpful" button on this review, but I don't care. I saw "L.A. Confidential" back when it was released, after all the hype, and was severely disappointed. It recently came on television again and I thought to myself that maybe -- hopefully -- I'd like it better now and see whatever it was that I missed before.
Unfortunately, my opinion remains the same. "L.A. Confidential" is a poor-man's "Chinatown," complete with all the "homages" and such to the genre...
The cast is top-notch and make the film worth seeing once: Guy Pearce, Danny DeVito, Kim Basinger and Kevin Spacey (delivering the best performance in the film). There's also Russell Crowe, but we don't like him, because he's a jerk and he can't act. Just kidding. But seriously, I don't think he can act.
"L.A. Confidential" is an OK movie but due to all the hype surrounding its release I was very disappointed. A few years ago it was #16 on the IMDb Top 250 and now it's #60 and steadily declining every few months... that says something, hopefully.