Totally unbelievable lead character, totally unbelievable situations

Rating: 4/10 (10 April 2015)

Of course there are functional sociopaths out there. But the lead character was just too weird for me to believe that anyone could build any rapport with him, or trust him with anything. His personality wasn't mesmerizing, it was creepy and robotic. For example, the conversations with the TV station director were unbelievable because he was just so completely weird. I wouldn't even listen to someone like that, much less do business with them. And his employee may be desperate, but hanging around with that dude all night for months? I really doubt it...
I also didn't feel like I got to know anybody in this movie. It had that same asthetic focus that Driver did, where the way to movie looks takes precendence over everything else. I found the two characters (from Driver and Nightcrawler) very similar; robotic and not human. I don't think sociopaths are typically that obvious, otherwise they would be easier to pick out...