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Curtis Hanson's adaptation of the James Ellroy best-seller is that rarest of modern Hollywood creations, a crime drama with the brains, sex appeal, humor, danger and action to satisfy all tastes. The ...( read more 
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MCT:September 21, 2008
Amazing cast...good plot and twists. Another good movie about corrupt cops.
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MCT:September 6, 2008A masterpiece. Extroadinary and magnificent. A marvelous and very enjoyable mystery. It's vintage edge of your seat excitment. It entertains in a classy and uniquely impressive way. Teriffic performances all around. Kevin Spacey is brilliant. Russel Crowe is a knockout. Guy Pearce is teriffic. Kim Basinger is marvelous. James Cromwell is excellent. It's a total powerhouse. Movies dont get any better than this. Excellent entertainment. One of the best crime dramas in years. It packs a solid mixture of suspense, humor, romance, gunplay and great detective storytelling. Terifficly tense and relentlessly exciting. It's first-rate. Sizzeling, sexy, dazzeling, explosive and exhilerating. A pulse-pounding and adreniline-pumping crime-drama.
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MCT:August 19, 20081950's Los Angeles is the seedy backdrop for this intricate noir-ish tale of police corruption and Hollywood sleaze. Three very different cops are all after the truth, each in their own style: Ed Exley, the golden boy of the police force, willing to do almost anything to get ahead, except sell out; Bud White, ready to break the rules to seek justice, but barely able to keep his raging violence under control; and Jack Vincennes, always looking for celebrity and a quick buck until his conscience drives him to join Exley and White down the one-way path to find the truth behind the dark world of L.A. crime.
If you haven't seen LA Confidential yet, do yourself a favor and spend a couple of hours enjoying what is one of the best movies in recent movie history. The plot moves along at a rapid pace, so if you don't pay attention it's easy to get lost. But between the terrific characters and the great music, you can't help but get caught up into it.
The plot is taken from the book by James Ellroy, who specializes in sizzling stories about the dark side of Los Angeles in the 1940s, 50s and 60s. He may be revising history but there is a ring of authenticity in his writing and that authenticity really comes through in the movie. You simply cannot go wrong with this movie.
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MCT:August 17, 2008
Wow!! What an amazing movie! Another one I can't believe I waited so long to see.I am becoming a huge Guy Pearce fan and really fast.This was a huge amazing cast,so many twists and turns,and Dam DIRTY cops I swear! Anyway don't like I did this is a very enjoyable movie lots of action and scandal,Check it out! =)
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MCT:July 3, 2008want to see this because it won best picture with the NBR, with the NYFC, with the NSFC, and with the LAFC
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MCT:December 3, 2008
A great tribute to old classic film-noirs, "L.A. Confidential" packs a wallop. Containing three great actors top-billed by the brilliant Kevin Spacey, this film can't do any wrongs. The film shows Los Angeles' underbelly, contained with sleazy blackmails, murder, and corruption. At first, I thought "L.A. Confidential" will most likely copy the style of Martin Scorsese's brilliant "Goodfellas", which is most likely a bad sign, but as the film progresses, it shifts from its subsequent flaws and turned into a brilliantly weaved crime saga. The story at first is thin, but as time passes by it slowly thickens and hit you right in the face with shocking revelations after another. This should have won best picture instead of the heavily-bloated "Titanic", but that's just my opinion. Russel Crowe's performance is very underrated.
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itbegins2005posted 207 days ago -
If there were 5 more movies you could see and no more....make sure this is one of them!!
IMPACT!!posted 292 days ago -
Great movie with great writing and acting. Keeps you guessing and even though Kevin Spaceys character was not a great person you can't help but like him.
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