Intense Ride, but ending fell short.

Rating: 8/10 (29 October 2014)

Intense, driven, crazy and slow burn until the very end. You really don't know what to expect when you step foot into watching this film Nightcrawler, but it does give you everything (in a way) in this movie.
Lou Bloom, (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a driven man. He's a petty thief and just trying to find work in Los Angeles. He does whatever he can to make a buck, until he comes across an accident and two cameramen catching everything on tape. It's where he learns, "if it bleeds, it leads."
He believes he found his niche and becomes a night crawler. A cameraman getting the brutal crimes across the city and trying to make money off of what he has. He starts off as an amateur until he slowly starts working his way up the totem pole of night crawling.
He's very ambitious to get what he wants when it comes to his "career." He even brings in an "intern" Rick (Riz Ahmed), a naive man, who's just trying to get money in his pocket to get a roof over his head. The two men journey out into the streets and getting what they can get, hoping to make it somewhere, but things turn for the ugly.
Lou becomes power hungry and wants everything to be his and no one else. He wants to play dumb and has a dopey look on his face as if he doesn't understand, but he is the one who has the upper hand on everyone. He believes he can be the one to call the shots and not see any consequences in any of it. He goes as far as getting someone killed in the process just to have it all.
I was a little disappointed with the ending. You were expecting more and got less. You wanted more to happen. There should have been something intense to end this film, but it fell flat. Other all, it was a good film.
Gyllenhaal is amazing as Bloom. He makes you want to hate him, but then you want to see him success, but you like to see him fail. He pushed himself in this film. You could see it. You believed him throughout the entire film. In my eyes, I feel like this is his strongest performance in quite some time. (Even though, I did love him in Prisoners last year.) I can definitely see this being an Oscar worthy performance. If he isn't nominated for this role, I would be surprise.