Riveting for an hour and a half

Rating: 6/10 (10 November 2014)

Well paced, suspenseful, great feel for L.A. at night. Lewis is wonderfully creepy and the macabre send up of self-realization speak is funny, as he scrapes up a business complete with an equally desperate employee at something he is actually good at - ambulance chasing paparazzi. Unfortunately both the character and the job are quite unpleasant.
With half an hour left, I began to realize this was not going to be a redemption tale like Taxi Driver, or a more traditional comeuppance. I could see the "edgy" ending from a mile away. So what is left but to take it seriously as a parable of local news journalism. A grand guignol exploitation about how exploitative local news might be, is so, so, well 70's. Network was stupid then and this is stupid now.