Deserves an 8

Rating: 7/10 (13 November 2019)

Nightcrawler is essentially a movie about business. It is told from the perspective, in a Taxi Driver fashion, of a lonely man trying to get his piece of the American Dream. He's not trying to fit in or becoming the greatest. He just wants to fight to get somewhere. And commendably.
Nightcrawler is about a man who randomly turns to news reporting as a hobby, and it eventually becomes a full time job. He ends up reporting various crimes and murders around LA, and hands the footage and information in to local broadcasters. When he gets some great footage of a murder as it's happening, he decides to mix his story with the murder story to get the perfect footage he could sell.
It's not as complicated as I've wrote it to be. My favorite aspect of the movie is that it's about a cool loser in Los Angeles, living on the other side of the fence. He doesn't want to work a normal job, and instead takes up this weird hobby. The hobby ends up being pretty cool, and he becomes pretty successful at it. It gives people hope that one day they'll finally discover something that makes them who they are.
Jake Gyllenhall does excellent in this movie. The lighting is perfect and eerie. And the story goes right along without getting boring for a second.
I would highly highly recommend seeing it. Probably one of my top 25 favorites.
7 stars