A rogue camera guy! It proves people will kill to get a news story of crime and it shows the underworld is media's bread and butter!

Rating: 8/10 (2 November 2014)

This new picture "Nightcrawler" speaks for it's own it's a picture that's bold, bleak, blunt and honest in a dark kind of way proving that people will win at all cost for a media story and crime stories of the underworld is the bread and butter of the media! Set in L.A. the city of angels you have Lou Bloom(in a dark and raw performance from Jake Gyllenhaal)as a young man who's a loner and a dark character as he makes his living from stealing metal and selling it as he lives a sad life in a one room L.A. apartment while driving a high mileage older model Toyota car. Being out at night he sees the streets and the darkness of underworld night action in L.A. and how that it attracts news, so a light has come on he must buy a camera and start recording the action footage as it happens and sell the footage! Slowly one by one Lou becomes a new L.A. crime journalist as each night he sees car crashes, blood, murders, police chases, and shootouts and he gets them all on camera as they occur and this real life footage he then takes into the last place news station in L.A., and it's here at this station the news manager Nina(the raw and attractive Rene Russo)has a plan this footage will air for ratings! All while Lou collects a buck so he can soon start his own news footage company! Overall this film is entertaining though dark it proves that news and the media is all about thrills, spills, and underworld drama as that is what leads to news company profits, in today's age the media and journalism is hungry for drama and a news making story at any and all cost it's what drives people and the culture of society.