Very good film, if you can handle moral ambiguity

Rating: 8/10 (25 December 2014)

This film has an unusual story. I watched it without knowing much about it, and that was the correct way to go. Go watch it now without knowing anymore.
Anyways, the story is about a man who has very little going for him, but then discovers that he's good at filming/selling video footage of crimes and accidents to the local news.
I'll leave it at that, because the story does not follow the usual Hollywood pablum. Jake Gyllenhaal does a great job. I'm not sure I can ever see him as a leading man after this. He's so real, or maybe that's just acting. Rene Russo and the rest of the actors are fine, no more no less. It's mostly a one man show, in a good way.