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Created Mar 17, 2008 01:38PM PST • Edited Mar 17, 2008 01:38PM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Great 4.0

   Despite a predictable twist near the end, the Machinist is a surprisingly deep and disturbing look at a man who has lets his life spiral into nothing.

4. Acting

   Perfect 5.0

   Bale is awesome, and even more impressive is what he had to put himself through to get the look he needed for this film. He weighs only 120 lbs looks sickly throughout.

5. Male Stars Perfect 5.0

6. Female Stars Perfect 5.0

7. Female Costars Perfect 5.0

8. Male Costars Perfect 5.0

10. Film

    Great 4.0

11. Direction Great 4.0

12. Play Great 4.0

13. Music Great 4.0

14. Visuals Great 4.0
15. Content

16. Edge

    Horrid 3.7

    A little violence, including a semi-graphic accident at a machine shop, but nothing too graphic is show on screen.

17. Sex Lewd 3.7

18. Violence Savage 3.7

19. Rudeness Nasty 3.7

21. Reality

    Glib 1.7

    Without spoiling anything I would say that most of what happens in this film could happen and that makes it all the more disturbing.

22. Circumstantial Glib 1.7

23. Biological Glib 1.7

24. Physical Glib 1.7