** What the hell!***

Rating: 4/10 (20 January 2006)

I would like to say first that I thought Christian Bale played this character well, he is a good actor, he really looked and breathed the part of an delusional, paranoid insomniac. However, the film I think is too clever for it's own good, with lots of symbolism involved,(make sure you don't miss a bit of the film otherwise you could have missed something vital to the film's plot.) He is always washing his hands with bleach, the Post It notes on the fridge with a hangman, the dark overtone of the film. The story of the film is lacking something... maybe a fully fledged story, but it does have something, I am going to watch this film again and pick up bits that I missed. I was actually mesmerized with the shear darkness of the film, but I actually thought that the ending was going to knock my socks off..... but unfortunately it didn't. Overall it was a weird film that once I had watched it thought.... what the hell, is it good or is it a bad film, I will have to watch it again and make up my mind.