Hitchcock would love this!

Rating: 10/10 (20 January 2005)

For fans of Memento... this is a terrifyingly dark, twisting descent into one man's extreme psychological hell & anguish. Here's a man so tormented, he hasn't slept a wink in over a year. Christian Bale (our new Batman) nearly killed himself preparing for this role. In an unbelievably dangerous transformation, the 6 foot 2 actor (who normally weighs 185 lbs) wasted his body away, starving himself down to a skeletal 120 lbs. How was he able to remember his lines, let alone focus on acting? Did he need serious medical attention while filming this? Bug-eyed, horribly emaciated, and acting out various stages of extreme insomnia, hallucinatory paranoia and delusional disorder, Bale gives one of the most amazing screen performances I've ever seen.