Familiar but still different

Rating: 8/10 (21 October 2005)

This isn't really a spoiler, but if you want to know the "feel" of the movie, it's kind of like Fight Club (or Secret Window) combined with The Woodsman. Very good, very dark, very well written and directed...the storytelling is awesome. So, much like my summary states, is familiar in both subject matter and the general feel of the film. Christian Bale is awesome (and looks AWFUL...he ate a one-cubic-inch size piece of fish for months to lose enough weight to do this movie, he looks like a starving Ethiopian, sorry if that sounds politically incorrect...)...and believe it or not, Jennifer Jason Leigh is actually quite good as well. If you get the chance, get the DVD and check out the Special Features AFTER you watch it. The deleted scenes explain a lot more, but would have given too much away too early in the film had they been left in.