JAKE GYLLENHAAL plays a dare-devil with a DEMENTED MIND.
“I embrace the World of Darkness… the elusive Night.”
This BOSS and ASSISTANT do not rate matters EYE-to-EYE.
“You just listen, because if you perform well in your BLOODY duties, you will soon be promoted to be the Vice-President of DARKNESS.”
“I HAVE TO PREVENT MYSELF FROM BEINGBLOOD-THIRSTY.”
“SHE’s STONE DEAD … now my TASK is made EASIER”
” … more TRACES of the morbid BLOOD trail ….”
YOU KNOW WHAT IT’S LIKE WHEN ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE!
“NOW, I get to be the FIRST to see this dead body!”
” NIGHTCRAWLER ” (2014) MOVIE PREVIEW
Poster boy JAKE GYLLENHAAL sheds his goodie-two-shoes to play a demented soul with a thirst of the macabre, who will stoop very low to get hold of any diabolic scoop, irrespective of how bloody the scene is.
To heighten authenticity, the handsome actor sheds thirty pounds off his frame to play a gruff, gaunt, ugly and despicable scoundrel.
Plot Summary:
“NIGHTCRAWLER” is a nail-biting thriller set in the night underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles.
JAKE GYLLENHAAL stars as Lou Bloom, a desperado seeking work at all costs, but gets rejected each time, until he discovers the click-or-die world of L.A. crime journalism.
Finding a group of freelance camera crews who shoot fires, murder. anything, Lou ventures into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling — where each police siren wail equals a possible monetary opportunity.
Lou Bloom has the support of Nina (RENE RUSSO), a veteran of the blood-sport that is local TV news who depends on Lou for raw newsworthy footage.
“If it bleeds, it leads.” says Nina, played by Rene Russo the veteran news producer to whom that Lou sells his videos.
We are shown that a nightcrawler is a freelance camera man who spends his nights listening to police scanners, waiting for the opportune moment some gruesome crime might happen.
From start to end, DAN GILROY’s directorial debut unfurls with a raw manic energy.
Kudos to this first-time director who is able to demonstrate a comforting assurance in his stellar work of being able to elicit the best performances from his actors.
Check this heart-stomping, fast-paced sci-fi flick that will burrow deep into the abyss of your mind as the plot gets grimier.
NOTHING is right. EVERYTHING is wrong.
It’s a deadly race against time.
There’s a sleek bomber on board the train. And his bomb is ticking away furiously … somewhere.
The action is thick and ferocious, pausing now and then to strew an occasional mind-bending “red herring”.
You call it the “SOURCE CODE” as this movie opens with a peremptory jolt, startles you with an unexpected twist and then drags you into deeper depths with a fiery vengeance.
This is one terrorist-themed thriller promising lots of pluck.
It delivers the goods.
And we have screen hunk JAKE GYLLENHAAL trailing the forbidden path trying to solve the riddle of the “source code”.
Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) awakens from a deep slumber to discover himself in a train heading for Windy City.
He is with a sweet and chatty companion, Christina Warren (Michelle Monaghan), but he is clueless about who she is and, much worse, who he really is.
A dash to the toilet mirror confirms his fear: He is trapped in another man’s body.
He is in trouble. Big time.
Who is he actually?
Whose identity is he adopting and how is he going to get out?
He is thrown into a maze of self-questioning.
The last thing he remembers, he was flying a plane in Afghanistan.
The film gradually unravels the hero’s true situation:
He is an Air Force captain who is taking charge of a government project dubbed “Source Code,” which allows him to exist in parallel reality, to relive ”the last eight minutes” in the life of a man who died on that commuter train, as did all passengers, when a bomb exploded killing everyone.
His mission is an ongoing cycle, to continue “reliving the last eight minutes” over and over again in the body of yet another man, until he can identify the elusive bomber and stop his bomb.
The captain is obligated to perform his duty, locate the bomber and serve his country but he is also vexed that, if he’s ever going to live, and should he do so, what would be his new identity?
We are swept into his chain of thoughts on his predicament.
The film highlights his desperate scramble against time with each repeat of the mission bringing Colter Stevens more answers about the terrorist plot and himself.
Director DUNCAN JONES helms a competent cast and provides a nail-biting pulsating film that will keep the viewer on edge.
Scriptwriter BEN RIPLEY conjures a clock-ticking thriller and weaves a “twilight zone” type of plot about a man frantically shuttling back and forth in his own time zone, over and again, to “re-live” the last eight minutes of that fella’s life to prevent another heinous crime from re-occurring.
Get ready to suspend your disbelief mode, chum.
“SOURCE CODE” challenges your adrenaline surge, is a probing movie that roller coasts and crashes with the inherent dark twists, rounding treacherous turns.
Experience fiery action, fine acting by the entire cast, nerve-wrecking excitement in one tight capsule.
Hop aboard for the most thrilling ride of your life.
