DVD Review: "THE MACHINIST" Score C

This movie is a waking nightmare. It is strange and out there but the plot is primarily this, a man who due to a past action a year ago, has stopped eating lost most of his weight, and is an insomniac. His insomnia is creating paranoia, schizophenia and a variety of bad life choices. The film is disturbing, and I am not really sure why it was made. Bale made a remarkable personal transformation by cutting his weight down to 120lbs to play this troubled man. I think that Bale took this movie on just to make this actors choice and go anoexic for the role. Its not a particually jaw dropping twist of an ending and if you didn't see it coming then you must not have been watching. SPOILER ALERT: here is the deal, A Man hits and kills a little boy, then he drove away from the accident, this caused him anguish and he stopped eating or sleeping for over a year, now he is disturbed mentally and is seeing the images of the mother, the boy and a strange mangled hand guy called Ivan...all of whom are just in his head he goes crazy and eventually turns him self in for the hit and run and can finally fall asleep in jail THE END... Nothing particularly great, scary or ultimately entertaining about this one.