The Machinist (2004) 8/10

Starring : Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, John Sharian, Michael Ironside
Director : Brad Anderson
Running Time : 102 mins

Trevor Reznik (Bale) is a deathly thin industrial worker who hasn’t been able to sleep in over a year, so he immediately starts to suspect he may be going crazy when, following an accident at work, he is told that one of his co-workers – a deformed weirdo named Ivan (Sharian) – doesn’t actually exist.

Man, Christian Bale was skinny in this movie! It was really distracting just how ill he looked, and it’s shocking that he managed to get his weight back up so quickly for Batman Begins. Despite that fact, this was actually a surprisingly entertaining movie which is filled with both dark moments of distinct creepiness and also a nice level of humour. I highly recommend checking it out at least once.

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