not quite there

Rating: 6/10 (8 March 2008)

This movie had great vision and some really good ideas, but it just did not pull it off. This movie is filled with great little moments, but as a whole it did come together. Christian Bale was brilliant and there was nothing wrong with him, but the rest of the movie was not there. The opening scene was awesome, but almost too cliché. They did explore the decent into madness very well. The violence was not over the top which was nice, but I think if they should more of the murders it would have been better in the end. Not that they needed to actually show the blood or gore, but to add show him killing people. The whole police aspect of the movie was not put together well and I did not feel at any point that he was a threat. They could have done without it or they could have expanded on it. As it stood it did not work for me. For me I don't think that there was that much confusion on the ending. I do no think he killed Jared Leto's character, but did end up killing people, but because he was crazy he was not able to keep things straight in his head. The best scene was the opening scene followed by his sex scene where he was flexing. I also loved the dialog of about the music. It felt as if it read right our a review (as it was supposed to) and just added to the fact that he was not human capable of normal human emotion. Overall not a great movie, but Christian Bale saved it from being even lower for me. There were great ideas and maybe in someone else's hands it could have been a masterpiece.