Review – L.A. Confidential

I remember when I first saw this film in the theater I found it very confusing. I had just finished reading the book, and the movie was such a truncated version that the short-cuts taken in the plot made the whole thing hard to follow. Now that my memory of the book has faded a bit, I don’t find the movie quite so bewildering. The characters were a little more three-dimensional in the book (no big surprise) and a lot harder to like (again, given Hollywood’s need to pitch an audience, no big surprise). Overall this is a fine piece of neo-noir, ranking right up there with the likes of Chinatown. Worth seeing