A great hitchcockian movie and one of the year's best

Rating: Null/10 (13 December 2004)

The Machinist Rated R (violence and disturbing images, sexuality, and language) ***1/2/out of 4
Sitting through "The Machinist", you'll feel as if you're watching good, old-fashioned Hitchcock suspense. The story focuses around Christian Bale, who hasn't slept in a year, and who is extremely skinny. An accident occurs in the factory he works at and the whole movie he thinks that people are after him. He's paranoid as hell. So, the whole movie the viewer is thinking, "is this guy crazy?"...or, "was that real?" Anyway, without giving any spoilers away, the final payoff is very believable and truly satisfying.