A waste of viewing time - disgusting and creepy

Rating: 1/10 (28 June 2005)

Like I have said in past comments, we watch 365+ movies a year at my house. This movie was the pits. I don't knock a movie just because I don't like an actor/actress, I try to write up a description as I would recommend a movie to a friend. I had never seen any of Christian Bale's acting before this. His acting was fine from what I saw, but the starvation bit was too much for me. All it did was depress the heck out of me and I could not pay attention to the plot for staring at his bag-of-bones body and stick-thin arms. It was borderline sickening. Why would you starve yourself and risk organ failure and/or heart attack like this? I have heard of suffering for your craft, but this was ridiculous. I would have turned it off, but my husband will always watch a movie to the bitter end. If it was up to me, it would not have lasted ten minutes. If you want to be grossed out by starvation, hey, rent the thing. The other actors and actresses he interacted with were fine and normal people. I noticed the "Year 2000" blue color we were all supposed to be using also. What was it, cerulean blue or something similar? If you remember, this was used heavily in "Joe Vs. The Volcano" to show us the depression of working in a lousy office job. In "Machinist" it's used to depress us in the tool and die factory. Please, I have to end this now and erase this movie from my memory.