Great job by Christian Bale, pathetic job by director

Rating: 2/10 (18 September 2014)

This film began with a cleanup of a murder -- cool, and nowhere else in the entirety of the film do we see another reference of it, until the final seconds of the film. The murder, if it happened, was of the guard who came up to Bale's character and Bale decided to kill him because he was cleaning up another murder. As films like this go I appreciate the lack of precise time lines and factoring in the insanity of the people. I love this, though this film failed to deliver beyond the fact of 'guy is insane, crazy stuff happens that he can't explain'. There was no chance for us, as observers, to decipher any meaning from it. This was a pointless movie, that's all I could think the entire time.
The worthlessness of this movie is not due to the actors, the director failed to deliver any meaningful care of us viewers to the characters. He produced the story in a haphazard way, introducing characters(such as the machinist friend) and then removing them. He focused heavily on Bale, simply focusing on him being skinny, rather than directing any sort of a story. This director then, microseconds after the final frame of the film, input his name 'a film by brad Andersen' in the credits. I will never watch another movie by Brad Anderson.