Gyllenhaal Gives An Excellent Performance

Rating: 7/10 (25 November 2014)

Nightcrawler is a very well made movie. The acting was top notch; Gyllenhaal gave an extremely subtle and very creepy performance. Dan Gilroy's directing shines throughout the dark visual aesthetics of the excellent cinematography. The movie does a lot of things right but where it ultimately fails is in its storytelling.
The movie is, at many instances, truly very tense and creepy, sometimes both at once. But in the end, the movie doesn't truly give the audience anything to care about. The plot is interesting enough and I appreciate that it's trying to do something a little different but with out giving it's viewers any real substance, there's not too much more to say...
Jake Gyllenhaal's performance was seriously fantastic, though. He felt like such a real creep it was almost disturbing.