The dialogue in the movie was well written really well and the director did a fantastic job, but I have a few gripes and the story as a whole was missing a lot. First, how Lou just gets into this. He just shows up to a news station with video. Like "here ya go" oh OK thanks for the horror videos! What? Nobody questions him at all, then he is laughing it up with the people in the news network. This guy could be a psycho (he is) they don't know him from a ham sandwich. Second, he breaks a ton of laws. You cannot enter scene of a crime PERIOD, or tamper with evidence. Or how he films people in their last moments dying, aren't you legally supposed to help? There is a law for that. Yelled at the screen many times like "oh come on" Walking into somebody's house filming without their permission and taking video of family photos? Illegal. I can't remember the last movie in which I despised the main character so much. And 2 months in he is in a SRT dodge and paying his helper $35 a night... that's insulting. Then he threatens him with no consequences. Bill Paxton's character never shows up a again after a car accident. He shoved the camera in his face while he was being carried into an ambulance, i was hoping he would come and get revenge. Instead, we get no development but "i bough new cars/vans better camera" oh wow 2 hours to buy vans. NO BACK STORY on this creep, but he "comes from the valley" I wanted Karma to catch him, but unfortunately it didn't. The movie just ends... Jake could have and should have gotten an oscar nomination but, they probably looked at this and understood there was ZERO arch in this character whether it was done deliberately or not Iam not sure. The movie really suffered because of that IMHO. He doesn't flip out or come to a realization of what he is doing, just the same blank guy the ENTIRE FILM. This could have been an epic movie but we get no other story besides him trying to pressure an ageing news woman to sleep with him for employment advancement. That's all we get? 6 stars for the cold acting, shots of LA, and the dialogue written. -4 for unanswered questions, factual errors and a weird, rushed ending.
Review of Nightcrawler
