The Machinist R

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The Machinist
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DVD Details

  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: January 8, 2013
  • Originally Released: 2004
  • Label: Paramount Catalog

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 155,892
Until now Bale's screen persona has been defined by a graceful athleticism; here his physicality is repellent, yet he carries the occasionally creaky plot of Scott Kosar's unsettling screenplay to a resonant finish. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Oct 24, 2011
Some people will pick up the clues early in The Machinist and some won't. I got some, not all, but I remained unengaged throughout, largely because of the film's deliberateness, which feels like lack of passion. Full Review
Sydney Morning Herald
Jun 10, 2005
A brilliant, harrowing performance by Bale. Full Review
FilmsInReview.com
Oct 24, 2011
Rating: 3/4 -- It's one of those movies that you admire more than you enjoy, but Anderson and Kosar are clearly talents to watch. Full Review
Seattle Times
Dec 3, 2004
Rating: 3/5 -- It's not necessarily a fun or loveable picture, but it is interesting and entertaining. Full Review
7M Pictures
Jan 9, 2010
Rating: 3/5 -- If Nine Inch Nails, Swans and Ministry ever loomed large in the landscape of your imagination, Anderson's gloomy aesthetic may exert a sour but lingering pull. Full Review
Film4
Oct 24, 2011
Bale's performance has the emotional weight to substantiate this body-art spectacle...
Sight and Sound
Mar 1, 2005

Product Description:

Christian Bale delivers one of cinema's most sacrificial performances in Brad Anderson's mesmerizing thriller. Written by Scott Kosar (2003's THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE), THE MACHINIST takes place in a bleak and nondescript American city, where Trevor Reznick (Bale) is quite literally withering away to nothing. During the day Trevor works in a colorless industrial factory, while at night he seeks refuge in the bed of a tender prostitute, Stevie (Jennifer Jason Leigh). For reasons unknown even to Trevor, he hasn't been able to sleep for an entire year. In the process, he has shed over sixty pounds, making him look like a walking skeleton. After an accident at the factory costs Trevor his job, he finds himself tracking a mysterious figure that may or may not, in fact, provide some answers to his confusion. Meanwhile, he begins to connect with a pretty airport waitress, Marie (Aitana Sanchez-Gijon), who shows Trevor some much-needed sympathy. By the time the film builds to its revelatory conclusion, it becomes quite clear just what has been tormenting Trevor all along.

Anderson and Kosar's vision is brought to spectacular life by cinematographer Xavi Gimenez and composer Roque Banos, whose haunting atmospherics recall the best work of Alfred Hitchcock. And then, of course, there is Bale, whose performance is as terrifying, brave, and devastating as the screen has ever seen.

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