Best movie of this year hands down!

To me, this movie is perfection.

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

'Nightcrawler (2014)' is a dark thriller with an excellent sense of tone, with occasional black humour serving mostly to emphasis the bleakness of its central arc. This beautifully shot feature is a fantastic look into the mind of a sociopath, with the transformation from protagonist to arguably antagonist being constantly engaging and essentially unique. It's this downward spiral and the charisma of the character that keep you in your seat, though the news-based narrative is remarkably riveting in its own right. It's a wonderfully assured - and, frankly, ballsy - character study. 8/10

This was a good one, dark unique storyline, which sees Jake Gyllenhaal as a shady crime journalist. Armed with a camcorder and police scanner he records violent events late at night in Los Angeles and sells the footage to a local television news station. Going to ever increasing lengths to capture car crashes, fires, murder and mayhem 'Lois' eventually films the aftermath of a violent home invasion, the resulting police investigation threatens to turn deadly.Jake Gyllenhaal was amazing in this; gaunt, brilliant, obsessed, slightly Rainman-ish and crazy. Even the way his character walks is unique. This was also a different story than I'd ever seen before which is so refreshing in this day of endless remakes, CGI fests and superhero movies. I was also impressed with Rene Russo as 'Nina' the news director who mentors Lois, welcoming his grisly crime photo footage as a chance to raise her station's ratings. Their relationships really shows Lois' rise to power. Bill Paxton has a small role as a fellow nightcrawler.Will watch this one again.

Jake Gyllenhaal does an astounding job playing the dark character that is Lou Bloom. His performance is the best part of this film, along with the other awesome characters including Rick and Nina, who bring out the most twisted and evil parts of Gyllenhaal's character. This was one of those rare films where I completely forgot I was watching a movie. The picture is painted amazingly by director Dan Gilroy. This was also his directorial debut. Nightcrawler delves into a multifarious amount of topics (which I won't spoil for you). Everything from it's opening scene to it's ending: simply incredible.

(2014) FILM: "NIGHTCRAWLER" Director: Dan Gilroy Lead Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal/Rene Russo/Bill Paxton Dan Gilroy's viciously exhilarating (2014) directional debut film "NIGHTCRAWLER" was surprisingly the most unforgettable film that I've seen since the brutally spectacular (2011) motion picture "DRIVE. Disgracefully snubbed by the (2014) Academy Awards, "NIGHTCRAWLER" is an astounding masterpiece from beginning to end and is HANDS DOWN in my strongest opinion the (2014) BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR! Academy Award winning worthy and equally responsible for the films magnificence was Jake Gyllenhaal in what I truly believe to be his greatest performance yet. Gyllenhaal's impeccably gripping, sadistic, restless and unshakable performance of sociopathic loner Lou Bloom is considerably the most pristinely portrayed sociopath of all time. Dethroning even "AMERICAN PSYCHOS" longtime number one fan favorite sociopath Patrick Bateman who's needless to say played by the incredible Christian Bale.