How do you wake up from a nightmare if you're not asleep?

In this unnerving saga, Trevor Reznick (Bale) works away in a machine shop, performing a drudge-like function but a dangerous one.  The machinery is steely and scary, and Trevor is losing his grip, physically and emotionally.

Freaking out his co-workers with his wisened frame, he's out-of-whack in his conversation too. When he causes a harrowing accident - a co-worker loses his arm - Trevor is completely ostracized and threatened.

He realizes he's losing it, and his condition keeps getting worse. He hasn't slept in a year. Trevor's only solace comes from a prostitute named Stevie (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and a waitress named Marie (Aitana Sánchez-Gijón). Marie works at a coffee shop at the airport, where Trevor goes every night for a piece of apple pie and a cup of coffee, always leaving an extremely large tip.   Haggard, bug-eyed and prone to hallucinations, Trevor can't tell up from down, reality from delusion.

At 6' 2" and weighing around 50 kilos (approx 8 stone), Christian Bale, as Trevor Reznik, looks like a concentration camp survivor.

This is a well told and intelligent film, it has been compared to Memento and Sixth Sense - we think it is stronger than both.  The movie has some great dialogue and Bale is supported by an excellent cast - even Michael Ironside makes an appearance and does ruin things!