A little too tame for my taste

Rating: 7/10 (22 October 2015)

After watching The Enemy I found myself craving for more Gyllenhaal (not the older one) and next station were the Prisoners. After that one (which I quite liked) there was a new one coming - Nightcrawler. Reading about it and seeing the poster (I don't watch trailers for many reasons) I thought it would be Academy Award worthy right from the beginning. Then I saw it and that feeling was almost gone. Not that it isn't a good film and everyone in it delivers solid performances, it's just that it didn't surprise or shock me in any way. And given the subject and the "look" of the film I expected it to be shocking and surprising. I am not a big fan of gore or horror movies but this was just too gentle and tame considering the genre and the nature of the main character. All in all it is a solid cinema but little bit deformed by the mainstream Hollywood a little bit shy as well.