Christian Bale's best performance

Rating: 10/10 (3 September 2012)

I'm not going to get into the differences between the book and the movie. This is simply a good movie, disregard the book for minute, the acting was great, the direction was astounding, and the script was chilling. Christian Bale's performance ranges from calm and controlled to a sometimes cartoonish (yet frightening)homicidal mania.
There wee parts of the movie where he almost reminded me of Jim Carrey, yet some how throughout all of it he still scares the crap out of me. This may be a spoiler but I don't' think it is, just be warned; there's a part in the movie where Christian Bale is naked, covered in blood, holding a chainsaw, laughing, chasing a woman down a hall. With any other actor this would've been the stupidest movie scene in history, yet Christian Bale brings a sort of homicidal energy, and deranged joy into it, almost like the Joker from Batman, there is not a second in this movie where I was thinking: "This is ridiculous" and there are plenty of scenes like the chainsaw scene mentioned above.
I think this shows the pure ability of Christian Bale that he can take this absurd character and somehow ground him in reality.
I watched this movie twice in a row. I'm not exaggerating. As soon as I finished it I started the whole thing over again and it was just as good if not better the second time. This is one of my favorite movie's and I have no trouble recommending it too a friend or stranger.
Ten out of ten, five out of five, simply an amazing movie.