A 7.5/10. Good movie. You may like it even more than I do.

Rating: 8/10 (1 March 2015)

A new concept. Something you haven't seen before. Ending got a little predictable to me but a genuinely decent flick. The story's good. Drama is good too, like most indie films.
The only flaw with this movie, I think is Jake Gyllenhaal I went in hoping to find my celebrity crush looking all dashing and acting all great and making it a one of those roles I'll remember forever and love the fact that it was played by him. But I was let down.
Apparently, Jake lost 30 pounds before doing this movie. I liked the buff look better. His body and face looked like a skeleton. His eyes looked massive and he lost all his cheekbones. If that wasn't enough, he would have looked better in a beard. This was one of those characters that would look better with the actor having at least a stubble. But no. He doesn't.
Anyway, keeping the physical aspect of him away, he doesn't exactly fit the role, or do justice to it. The acting's good and all, but he doesn't exactly look creepy or scary, or DARK, basically. This character was supposed to look dark. Instead, he portrays it like a drug addict, who doesn't quite know who to react to what situations.
Besides that, the movie is great. A 9/10, even.
It's funny how Jake was supposed to make me partial towards this movie, but instead he took away the 1.5 and was the only thing I didn't like in this.
Ryan Gosling did it better in Drive (another good indie film similar to this in genre, watch it) and he wasn't even supposed to look that dark/evil/mysterious considering how he was one of good guys. But he nailed it.