Gilroy (author of the Bourne films and Michael Clayton) has written a morality fable about the engineering of news and manipulation of media, through a psychopathic main character (Jake Gyllenhaal acting like the young intense Martin Scorsese). It's almost American Psycho for TV cameramen. We would have preferred he was caught (with CCTV etc actually the more likely outcome and more of an audience pleaser).
Riz Ahmed is good as his unwilling accomplice. With Rene Russo, Bill Paxton (rival cameraman, who sadly died this February), Michael Hyatt (cop), Kevin Rahm (TV's Lethal Weapon), Ann Cusack.
Has a hint of Taxi Driver in eternal night, realised by Robert Elswit (in Panavision). Tense ending.
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