When the people who are in charge of maintaining the peace end up creating chaos, it leads to destruction, way bigger than the outer chaos could have damaged. Often we get to experience this kinda situation in various ways.
L.A. Confidential is a crime genre film from 1997, which was directed by Curtis Hanson, and the screenplay was based on a novel by James Ellroy from 1990.
So the story basically centers around some LAPD officers from Los Angeles, in 1953. There are a few key characters, one of them I would like to name is Russell Crowe as Wendell White and the other is a new guy, who joined the force as a newbie Guy Pearce as Edmund Exley. Throughout the whole movie we may see some conflicts between these two for their own interests, Ed is playing the role of an honest officer and doesn't hesitate to testify against the wrong even if those are his seniors. Well, it's not like that White is a dishonest guy, he is loyal to his work too.
The story deep dive into a shootout that takes place in a cafe and among the victims, there was an LAPD officer too, White's friend, whom the agency suspended earlier because of testimony from Exley, that's how Exley and White's relationship got worse. So we would see some detective and action stuff to catch the possible killers. And they get hold of some Nigerians too. And that was during the half of its duration.
If sliced in two, the second half would be a spoiler if I start telling anything. Yeah, I wasn't expecting a turn like that but the story and performance built in the second half were much more impressive to me.
If I talk about individual characters then Exley and White, both of them had some incidents in the past that dragged them here in their today's profession, you would see White going out of the usual way to do certain things.
Often the poster of the film may give you another vibe, as I got before watching, not to mention that but yeah, some Hollywood celebrity stuff is also included in the movie along with the corruption and crimes one after another that took place. So many shootouts, so many murders, characters are being murdered one after another unfolding a twist for us, the movie goes forwards and you get another one, and this lasts till the end, yeah I didn't expect the last scene too in that way.
Maybe the explanation wasn't good enough about the story but yeah it was a perfect crime genre film to watch. Wasn't distracted even for a moment, the story kept me hooked, as time passed by the story got more intense. As it's from the crime genre so murder and shootouts are normal to experience more and more. So jump in, got a runtime of more than two hours and trust me, you won't feel that long as the story progresses. Would love to rate it 8.5 out of 10, would highly recommend you to watch it if you haven't already. A great one for sure, Happy Watching!
