Certificate:

Director: Brad Anderson

Release Date: 18 March 2005

Tagline: How do you wake up from a nightmare when you’re not asleep?

Main Cast:

Christian Bale … Trevor Resnik

Jennifer Jason Leigh … Stevie

Aitana Sánchez-Gijón … Marie

John Sharian … Ivan

I rented this from LoveFilm and by the time it came up on the list for dispatch I’d forgotten what is was about. Having known that I wouldn’t have picked it if It didn’t look good, I decided to just put it in the player and see what happened. What a great decision that was! Don’t read anything about it beforehand – just watch it!

Christian Bale is absolutely fantastic. The fact that he managed to turn himself in to a living skeleton for the role is a thing to behold in itself. The film is intriguing and engaging from the get go, and slowly starts to turn into one of those ‘headf**k’ films that you find yourself totally immersed in. Despite that though, you don’t at any point start thinking “huh?”; instead you feel sure that there *will* be a satisfactory resolution to it. And indeed there is. As you slowly start to understand what’s happening you get a great sense of enjoyment from the cleverly crafted script.

I shall say no more than this – watch it!

Rating: