Lou Bloom has his cake and eats it too

Rating: 5/10 (16 February 2015)

in Nightcrawler (an exercise in self congratulatory navel gazing if there ever was one).
From the very get go we see BLoom is a sociopath and for two more hours the audience watches as the sleaze is ratcheted up and up.
Bloom is quite frankly, an animal and the film does nothing to give him any depth or add some complexity to the narrative. No love interest, No back story to give insight into what makes him tick, No real antagonist.
The positives are Jake Gyllenhaal, who does everything you could want with the material. As well as the cinematography and very good score.