Dark, stressful and clever

Rating: 9/10 (26 October 2005)

I checked out this movie today and yesterday; I felt I wanted to see it again, knowing what the writer knew from the beginning. After the first viewing I was a bit worried about the script's logic, but I was a bit more content after the second one.
This film had me worried about Christian Bale's health. Starving yourself this bad for a character is borderline uncool - even though it made the story more believable. All that press about Bridget Jones and putting on weight - what about looking like a walking corpse?
The story is well written and the set is almost black and white in its bleakness - it has a sickly green/gray/yellow tint. The feel is paranoid from the get go, and then it gets more and more twisted.
This is good weird - and Christian Bale is fantastic!