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Thursday, 2 April 2009

The Machinist (2004)

Posted on 00:39 by uthpa
Best Avoided
Spain
Feature Film
Original Title: El maquinista
Director: Brad Anderson
Writer: Scott Kosar
Cinematographer: Xavi Giménez
Composer: Roque Baños
Cast: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, John Sharian, Michael Ironside, Larry Gilliard

The sight of Bale’s skeletal form is one the most distasteful things to ever appear on our cinema screens, but other than that, Anderson’s rather familiar Kafkaesque tale, following Bale’s machine operator through a waking dream of paranoia, déjà vu, and guilt, is really quite anodyne and forgettable. Iain.Stott
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