A very suspenseful thriller

Rating: 10/10 (23 June 2015)

This movie is not only one of the best thrillers I have ever seen in a long time mainly because the movie is different than most thrillers, and it is also one of the best directing debuts that I have ever seen. The movie is written and directed by Dan Gilroy and is a movie should have gotten a whole lot more Oscar nominations than the single original screenplay nomination that the movie ended up receiving. The movie stars Jake Gyllenhaal in a completely different performance as Lou Bloom a man who is desperate for a job who ends up getting fascinated with L.A. crime, even before he gets a job he starts night-crawling at first talking with a man named Joe Loder (played by Bill Paxton) while looking for a job for about a few days to a week when he meets a woman named Nina Romina (played by Rene Russo) who he kept showing crime footage to,mainly so that he could become more well known as a crime journalist. The movie has a lot of other good things about it besides the story , and the performances, but also James Newton Howard's score, and Robert Elswit's cinematography are just perfect for this type of movie. I am looking forward to seeing as to what films that Dan Gilroy will direct next because to me this film was worth a start for a great film career as a director for Dan Gilroy in the years ahead.