a masterpiece!

Rating: 10/10 (18 June 2000)

After having seen the movie some time ago I decided to watch it a second time and the only thing I can say is, that this movie has it all!!! Especially when you watch it again ... and again! You find out details of this very smart told story that were not obvious at the first time and that get clear just after the third time watching it. You don't get enough from this film because Curtis Hanson had the sensibility to chose for a perfect cast that gives the book of James Ellroy what it actually is: a dark and brutal story of Los Angeles in the early fifties that only knows losers in all kinds of varieties. There is no good vs. bad. The good guys are bad, too and if you watch the development of the main characters played by Pierce, Spacey and Crowe along the movie you are very confused of not having one person in this movie you can really identify with. Just close to the end this situation changes but not the way you expect it. "LA Confidential" is a real masterpiece!