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Started as a "Go" descended into "Oh No!" ... I split the difference by dollwithouteyes
Mr. Anderson has imagination and classic movie making skills when it comes to horror and suspense, he uses atmosphere and emotion to tell a story. The Machinist is an example of how creative he can be. Even when he's involved with something as gimmicky as the MOH series, it will be tastefully done, he doesn't stoop to sex scenes or violence. In this film he takes a scenario that could be laughable and begins to make it surprisingly spooky, things bump in the night, he also blurs the line between illusion, memory and reality well. Its reinforced by pretty good acting. Even Hayden Christensen has made some improvement since Star Wars. I was especially pleased by newcomer Jacob Latimore. But who let this screen writer out of film school? Everyone tried to breathe life into his paper-thin concept but it went into cardiac arrest in the end. It was so anticlimatic it hardly passes for finished, its like the writer stopped after the first paragraph of his idea. This could have been good...