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| The Machinist | 
 enlarge | Director: Brad Anderson
Actors: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sanchez-gijon, John Sharian, Michael Ironside
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  209 reviews
Sales Rank: 5211
Format: Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 102
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: PARD344144D
ISBN: 1415711623
UPC: 097363441441
EAN: 9781415711620
ASIN: B0007Y08QA
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
Release Date: June 7, 2005
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Product Description
An industrial worker hasnt slept in a year. He is living a nightmare where cryptic notes appear & has visions of a co-worker no one else can see. Are these mysteries part of a plot to drive him mad? or has fatigue simply robbed him of reason? Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/24/2006 Starring: Christian Bale Jennifer Jason Leigh Run time: 101 minutes Rating: R
Amazon.com
As a bleak and chilling mood piece, The Machinist gets under your skin and stays there. Christian Bale threw himself into the title role with such devotion that he shed an alarming 63 pounds to play Trevor Reznik (talk about "starving artist"!), a factory worker who hasn't slept in a year. He's haunted by some mysterious occurrence that turned him into a paranoid husk, sleepwalking a fine line between harsh reality and nightmare fantasy--a state of mind that leaves him looking disturbingly gaunt and skeletal in appearance. (It's no exaggeration to say that Bale resembles a Holocaust survivor from vintage Nazi-camp liberation newsreels.) In a cinematic territory far removed from his 1998 romantic comedy Next Stop Wonderland, director Brad Anderson orchestrates a grimy, nocturnal world of washed-out blues and grays, as Trevor struggles to assemble the clues of his psychological conundrum. With a friendly hooker (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and airport waitress (Aitana Sanchez-Gijon) as his only stable links to sanity, Trevor reaches critical mass and seems ready to implode just as The Machinist reveals its secrets. For those who don't mind a trip to hell with a theremin-laced soundtrack, The Machinist seems primed for long-term status as a cult thriller on the edge. --Jeff Shannon
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 "You lost it, man" December 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I recently was looking up films that Christian Bale starred in when I bumped into this gem. I never heard anything about this film but after watching it I say it deserves the praise that it gets on here and then some.
Trevor Reznik is a factory worker whose life goes completely awry after he meets a mysterious stranger named Ivan(John Sharian) that claims to work in the same factory. Things get worse for Trevor as one his co-workers loses an arm(Miller played by Micheal Ironside) and he is questioned about the incident. Trevor believes he is going insane and constantly visits a hooker and a airport restaurant waitress in attempts to regain his sanity. He hasn't been sleeping well and things get more complicated for him once Ivan is introduced into his life.
Christian Bale gives one hell of a performance as the tortured soul Trevor Reznik. Jennifer Jason Leigh as well as Michael Ironside turn in some good performances. Christian Bale looks ghastly and sickly but his point of shedding 63 pounds to play this role was well made. I also like the score for this movie. Its no overbearing and grating: Its haunting and eerie and complements the overall tone to this intriguing and well-written mystery. So if you are in the mood for a great psychological thriller you couldn't go wrong with The Machinist.
Echos of another great movie December 21, 2008
This is a great movie, very well done, and Christian Bale is amazing. If you like this movie, try "The Tenant", an early Roman Polanski effort. It is very similar in vibe, and I have a feeling that the director of The Machinist may have seen it more than once...
Great mindbender that just about merits Bale's performance December 3, 2008
I remember that this film came out around the same time as Adrian Brody's 'The Jacket'. The themes of both films are remarkably similar - a tortured individual is increasingly plagued by bizarre intrusions into his everyday reality, with both he and the viewer desperately trying to ascertain if what he is experiencing is real or merely a descent into madness, scrambling for clues in a dense thicket of intimations, references and flashbacks to the characters past.
I enjoyed 'The Jacket', but found this to be a notch higher in the mind-bending rankings, firstly because all the loose strands were tied up at the end, and secondly, because of a quite outstanding and intense performance from the unnervingly gaunt Christian Bale. The unbearable responsibility of self-judgement played out in a contemporary and real yet disturbingly soulless backdrop, turns this film into one of the best adaptations yet of a novel that Kafka never wrote, and that's the kind of accolade that Bale's sacrifice to his art surely merits.
I'm going out on a limb here... October 11, 2008
Christian Bale is the new Marlon Brando. That's my take. I'd seen every one of his films before this (except for the latest Batman) and thought I had witnessed his best performances but no - this is his greatest. I am a complete and total CB fan. I hate movies like Batman and The Terminator, but I will see them now because I want to make certain I don't miss one of his performances. I hope he gets all the perks he deserves for working so darned hard. The talent, the dedication he brings to his work are phenomenal. I'm in awe.
 haven't i seen this story before? October 1, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
the movie is just a reworking of an old hollywood gimmick. we've seen the same thing in 'fight club'(1999), 'memento'(2000) and 'the secret window'(2004). and the story is much, much older. it was pobably old when l ron hubbard used it in his story 'fear'(1940).
it is just a reworking of an old gimmick, with all of the usual dark music, sound effects, camera angles, and cliches from central casting. it evens rips off the red car gimmick from 'the sixth sense'(1999).
i realize a lot of people enjoy these things. but it's just the same old, same old, same old. it blows. sue me.
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