Study of a sociopath

Rating: 8/10 (18 October 2015)

Jake Gyllenhaal is the man. He is growing in stature with each offering. An Oscar winning portrayal of a psychotic praying mantis deftly and coldly manipulating people and events to his ever growing obsession of making it big in the video news business. The direction of events are inexorably predictable; giving a new way of dealing horror by extrapolation and anticipation. We keep trying to reassure ourselves that surely somebody will - no must - stop him. But the people around him are easily taken in and manipulated by his geekily well informed articulated marketing sales spiel. A satirical and morbidly comic side permeates the movie but evil distills over and overwhelms. Brilliant classic. An easy choice for Halloween viewing.