In my never ending search to find more than one A grade movie on the Stan streaming service, I watched the 2014 Jake Gyllenhaal vehicle Nightcrawler last weekend. It got a 95% rating on Rottentomatoes, which just goes to show how unreliable it can be. (Metacritic gave it a much more reasonable 76%, but I would put it much lower than that.)
It's a very peculiar movie, seemingly made mainly to show off Jake's earnest ability to make himself look physically quite awful and act as really oddball sociopath. A mix of Sheldon (Big Bang Theory) and Nathan (from Nathan for You - the somewhat amusing but disorientating comedy series also on Stan - you should try it), the role is very menacing and cringingly funny, but it doesn't ever really dramatically build up to much.
Thematically, it did keep reminding me of Network, not that I particularly enjoyed that movie either.
Good acting in search of a good story, I would say. 4.5/10.
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