Reviews

The pursuit of that kind of shady news by Bloom, the news agency, and the audience is the basis of the film.

What's great in this film is that Gyllenhaal's character, Louis Bloom, takes his role as a stringer one step further and starts influencing the stories he's capturing for news station KWLA 6.

The conditions in America for a Louis Bloom to come along are still there (although he'd probably put his footage on social media instead of selling it to news stations, but I digress).

All these are very low profile movies which are dumped in September or in summer.Oscar campaign is a very expensive affair and if a movie isn't making bank at box office , studios aren't gonna spend anymore money to campaign for the movies and also the movies have to be edgy without being preachy an...

When asked by Bloom, one of the cameramen reveals that he and his partner drive around LA, filming anything and everything to sell to the news station that will pay the most.

Jake Gyllenhaal, cast brilliantly against type, plays Louis Bloom, an unemployed techno geek who happens upon a traffic accident one night and learns from a freelance crime journalist (Bill Paxton) on the scene that he is about to sell the footage to the news station that will pay him the most for i...

Bill Paxton convinces as the man who inspires Bloom into the nightcrawling industry when we see cameramen filming victims in the night in their moment of need whilst the lawmen aid them.

Bloom witnesses a car accident one evening and sees some amateur cameramen capturing footage of the wreckage, Bloom thinks he can do better, and he stops at nothing to achieve that.

Jake Gyllenhaal manages to deliver an astonishingly great performance as Louis, a clearly disturbed individual whose messed-up nature makes him the perfect fit for an occupation as callous as that of a nightcrawler.

I mean its okay but hardly anything great like critics will have you believe, Jake Gyllenhaal's performance is the focal point of the films praises but the problem I had with it and what stopped it from reaching the level of greatness presented in similar films like The King of Comedy was its clear-...