Creepy yet thrilling NIGHTCRAWLER

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 Jake Gyllenhaul plays Louis Bloom, a creepy individual who just wants to be excepted and most of all get a job.
  When we first meet Louis Bloom, he's trying to get a job, but his creepiness gets in the way and we see that Mr.Bloom doesn't take being rejected very well. One night, he witnesses an accident and see a group of independent news camera crews descend on the carnage and take video of said carnage and then sell it to local TV news stations.
 Bloom is a quick learner and before you know it he's in front of a local TV news producer, played by Rene Russo (Lethal Weapon 3 and 4), selling his footage of another accident from another another night.
  Writer/Director Dan Gilroy gets very close to turning this thriller about the media getting screwed by a psychopath, into a black comedy. Don't know what a black comedy is? Google it.
But thankfully, Gilroy keeps the action in the thriller genre.
 I can't stand the news media and seeing how they are portrayed here makes me smile. But not all news people are bad. Right?
  Gyllenhaul is very under-rated as Louis Bloom. It's one of the best performances of his career.
He does an excellent job of creeping you out, but at the same time you actually understand (at least I do) what motivates him to do all the crazy things he does in this film.You actually have empathy for him, to a certain extent.
 I give NIGHTCRAWLER a creepy yet thrilling B+.
Check it out now on DVD or streaming video. Out now.

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