L.A. Confidential

I'm not sure why, but this movie was not at all what I thought it was going to be. I don't just mean in terms of quality — though it certainly was better than I was assuming — but in terms of kind. In my head, this film was fairly generic crime fodder of the sort typical in the late nineties (perhaps it's the generic name that threw me off base). Instead, it was — and I truly don't mean this as damning with faint praise — an incredibly competent, efficient, and propulsive movie t...