Excellent

Rating: 8/10 (6 December 2014)

Jake Gylennhaal is Lou Bloom; a loner in the mold of Travis Buckle from Taxi Driver. He is a petty thief who steals in order to survive, and eventually gets the idea after witnessing a car fire where a freelance photographer is shooting the scene to sell to a TV news program, to do the same thing. He buys a camera and police scanner, and he is in business. His first shoot is a close up of a bleeding victim and is night by an ambitious news director played by Rene Russo. They develop a relationship which is advantageous to both. He gets better and better at shooting graphic footage for Russo to use on air. They are both completely amoral, and by the end of this film you despise the both of them. Jake's Lou is an extremely quirky character who spouts strange pearls of wisdom throughout. Russo is just as vicious, and will do anything necessary to survive. Nightcrawler is one of the ten best movies of 2014.