I received my Netflix movies last night and saw that I received The Machinist. I can’t remember why or when I put this movie on my queue, but I’m glad I did. I think it might have been one of those “If you like Memento, you might like the Machinist” moments.

Overall it was a really interesting plot. I love psychological thrillers.

In short, it’s about Trevor Reznik (Christian Bale), an industrial machinist, who has chronic insomnia and bad/strange things happen. I really enjoyed the ending, I didn’t expect it.

I was amazed at Christian Bale’s appearance. I didn’t think it was him at first since he was so freakin’ thin. The producers of the film claim that Christian Bale dropped from about 180 pounds in weight down to about 120 pounds in weight to make this film! [according to IMDB]. It was almost gross to see him like that, but that’s who the character was supposed to be, a walking skeleton.

It was also interesting to know that this movie was filmed in Spain, but the movie is set in L.A. They had to make all the scenes appear as if it were filmed in the States (signs, labels, streetlights, etc.)

I’m going to watch it again to catch all the little things I missed the first time around.

If you like dark, psychological, creepy, thriller, sometimes gross movies, rent The Machinist.