Review of L.A. Confidential (1997) by Rainer K — 01 Mar 2013
Fun fact about L.A. Confidential: Then unknown Crowe and Pearce weren't enough to convince studio execs to produce the film - only the casting of Kim Basinger secured the actual production of the film.
L.A. Confidential is a homage to classic film noir, just in colour. It has one of these straight forward Mystery Thriller plots with all the intrigues and twists that made film noir so popular. It's basically about three cops investigating in a homicide case, and all of them do it different. But in my opinion it's more about a sophisticated character study of these three than about solving the case.
And although the characters are really well analyzed the final twist is crap.
The best thing about L.A. Confidential is arguably its cast, beside the above mentioned Crowe and Pearce in their first big American production, it has Kim Basinger as femme fatale, Kevin Spacey and dozens of familiar faces in minor roles like James Cromwell, David Strathairn the guy from The Mentalist and one of the CSI crew.
This review of L.A. Confidential (1997) was written by Rainer K on 01 Mar 2013.
L.A. Confidential has generally received very positive reviews.
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