L.A. Confidential

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Summary: Marvelous, simply marvelous!
Review: I felt the need to write this review as a way of off-setting the one or two bad comments it has received here. Did these people see the same movie as I have (numerous times, I might add)? L.A. Confidential is, without a doubt, on my list of the best movies of all time. Every performance is top-rate. As is true in all of his movies, Kevin Spacey provides an amazing magentism which draws me in time and again. I really loved this movie!

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Summary: It should have been better...
Review: After all the hype I really had hoped for more. It was ok, funny in bits but not anything to rave about.

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Summary: we wus robbed!!!
Review: it fit in boxing and it fits here. how on earth did titanic beat this movie for best picture is beyond me. i never really thought of movies as works of art until i saw l. a. confidential. this is a superbly crafted movie.

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Summary: Good, but not really anything new
Review: We have here a film that sadly, peaks early on. The cruel underbelly of 50's Los Angeles is refreshingly portrayed, but when that's done, the film has no place to go but a stereotypical "it's-who-we-lease-expect-it-to-be" revelation. Danny DeVito proves he's earned the right to appear onscreen with an amusing performance as a slimey reporter that manages not to drown us in cliches. Kim Basinger has a certain depth, but not enough to mask her relative unimportance to the plot (we know she's a hooker early on, and who she works for--no real surprises). But the film's best asset is Kevin Spacey, the only character with more than one side to him, and when he exits from the film there's a gaping hole. On to the shoot-out and wrap-up. Besides, is anyone out there suprised that L.A. isn't all it's cracked up to be?

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Summary: Outrage, horror, blaspheme!! Where is the fifth star!
Review: Did anyone not give this film Five stars!!! ME! This was the most over-rated film of all time. Now don't get me wrong. it's good, but not THAT good. The directing is good, the acting is good, the script is good, the ending is good. It is all good, good, good. (Except for Basinger, who is bad.) BUT THIS FILM LACKS GREATNESS. I GUESS I'M JUST NOT SEEING THE SAME FILM. That being said it is worth watching and the DVD is the most feature packed to date. 89/100 B+

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Summary: excellent
Review: I watched this movie a few times with the same excitement and I thought: why, such excellent(for all the ways) movies often cant get what they deserve? There is the script, there is the directing, there is the character developement, the movie has it all. So why, Titanic is the one, get it all ?

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Summary: Great Cop Suspense Thriller
Review: Very well written and directed. Lots of great twists and turns. Classy. Great gun fight at the end too. Got a bit gross at times, but not gratuitous.

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Summary: Another Hollywood Stinkeroo That Garners High Praise
Review: Why, oh why are people obsessed with promoting movies that depend more on vulgarity and sex than plot? Why do these movies never-the-less garner all sorts of critical acclaim? This seedy study of a creep cop and his slut girl had every cliche in the book, and every cuss word to boot. I think, gee, what would I rather watch? A masterpiece like Lillies of the Field or this LA Confidential garbage? Moral of story: I'll never be a Hollywood critic because I favor movies that lift the human spirit, not that show us what rotten scum we are underneath our veneer of civility. So be it. Please, Amazon, allow us to rate films with no stars.

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Summary: Absoultely the best!
Review: This movie has it all. There is drama, action, mystery, and romance, all in one movie. The acting is superb. Kevin Spacey delivers a great performance but his role plays second fiddle to the top notch performances given by Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce. The story is rich, gripping and keeps you guessing right up to the end. The atmoshpere of the 1950's is perfect and accentuates the whole ambiance of the film. This was definately the best film of 1997.

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Summary: Great Story With First Rate Actors
Review: LA Confidential takes us back to 1950's Hollywood and police corruption. It also shows how gossip magazine writers would do whatever it took to get some juicy dirt on celebrities, politicians and police alike. While extremely violent, it is one of the most important works to come along in years and it'd be great to see more of James Ellroy's books made into films like this one.