My motto is if you want to win the lottery, you have to make the money to get a ticket.

Rating: 8/10 (28 April 2018)

Donnie Darko, Brokeback Mountain, Prisoners and many others. Jake Gyllenhall is fore sure one of the best actors of his generation. He already showed us his talent frequently. But as the psycho Louis Bloom he was just impressive. In every second he puts this charakter his stamp on. I would even go that far to say, Bloom is one of the best antiheroes i have ever seen. I'm looking forward to Gyllenhall's future projects. If he can keep this level rudimentary, the academy has no other chance to honor this man.
Also sensational was the directing debut from Dan Gilroy. The tight production, the interesting design of LA as well as the pleasant music were a very good combination. I'm curious what we will see from this man in the future. Confessedly the tension of this story from the sensationalism and a guy who knows to exploit that is limited after the time, but this movie makes the best of it and achieves to watch this film more times. It is rare to give a movie more than 7 points, but a great Gyllenhall and the good complete work made it possible.