Violence glorification

Rating: 4/10 (15 February 2015)

So many Hollywood films are mindless glorifications of violence and this film focuses on the obscenely vulgar practice of selling footage of violence and calamities to TV stations. But all the necessary ingredients of a proper film scripts are missing. One can only guess at Gyllenhall's reasons for being so callous, selfish and downright mean. There's no background information to warrant his behavior. And why he walks out of the police station near the end, without his computer and cameras being confiscated is simply silly. If the police suspects you of murder, I think they would at least investigate properly. You are left with a film that only superficially portrays a deeply troubled man, but there's no attempt at proper character development that would engage the audience in the tragic fate of this man. He ends up being a successful entrepreneur in his vulgar field and the audience is left with a film that is mildly suspenseful, and heavily disrespectful of proper filmmaking - not to mention the dignity of human existence.