Falls a bit short of the mark

Rating: 7/10 (6 August 2005)

** SPOILER HINTS AT PLOT PATTERN ** With films like fight club setting the bar for this type of plot twist thriller, I don't think this film reached it. I'm an enormous Bale fan and a major fan of this sort of film, that shows feasible paths for normal people to become the most unrecognisable shadow of themselves. Throughout the movie, there is an obvious and pending plot twist as you watch reznik rip himself apart but the director made us wait too long. The plot twist is powerful but not worth the preceeding period of boredom, since its quite obvious what is and is not real, watching the scenes that reznik completely imagines becomes tedious. It's definitely worth a watch for fans of Bale and the genre. The plot twist is enlightening and agreeable but its the sort of movie you'll want to take a break in the middle of.