Spare 101 minutes of your life and don't watch this

Rating: Null/10 (22 January 2015)

Remember when you were at film school or University and you had to choose a script, working in groups and there was always this classmate suggesting to make a film about "the guy that can't stop washing his hands due to some child trauma"? or about "the guy that can't go outside because he's scared of the exterior"? Basically, some guy with an irrelevant trauma that nobody cares about and it's not worth even talking about it? That's the machinist. Over explanatory conversations, overacted characters, trying to create tension and basically just making you feel like fast forwarding. Maybe it has some Spanish influence, unfortunately, form that 'new wave' of Spanish cinema that relies on the "gotcha!" twist at the end, unbelievable story lines and characters nobody cares about. This sounds very negative, but I had to do it. It annoyed me so much. There was a moment in the film you could guess what was coming next. The script is everything in any film, if you have a good script, you can have a great film, if you don't, then you might end up with The Machinist.