A one trick pony but with a very good trick

Rating: 7/10 (26 April 2015)

This story centres around a very unusual and compelling character played by Jake Gyllenhaal. He enters the world of live action journalism after witnessing a car crash and the reporters jostling the paramedics to get shots of the victims to sell to the news networks.
There is a quick look at society and its grim fascination with instant media, but not as much as I expected (to be fair it has been done to death). I also expected the main character to go off the deep end and start engineering his own stories. This doesn't really happen and I am little pleased as it would have been a bit obvious.
In fact this film is solely about the central character and his methodology, which borders on autistic, the other characters and events are only shown as stimuli for his reactions. This makes the story feel a little bland and the other characters a bit shallow but is essential for the central plot of the film.
A very interesting film with a great character but left me feeling a bit unsatisfied.