Total Recall: Christian Bale’s Greatest Movies
Of the few great actors found in Hollywood, like Leonardo Di Caprio or Johnny Depp, one can also mention Daniel Lewis. He tops the above actors, for sure. Another great actor is Christian Bale who has been overlooked for a long time.
To show you Bale’s versatility I will comment on some of his latest work:
Of the two Batman’s movies starred by Christian Bale the sequel to Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, is by far a better movie than its predecessor.
Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Michael Caine, Piper Perabo get together this time to give us the thriller The Prestige. Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman play rival magicians who were once friends. Bale outperforms Jackman, for sure.
The fictional story of Trevor Reznik is depicted in The Machinist. Trevor’s a machinist who hasn’t slept in over a year. Working in a machine shop he faces all types of occupational hazards and due to his extreme fatigue causes him to accidentally cut off a co-worker’s hand. For this film Bale lost more than 70 pounds of weight, and it shows in the movie.
Justin Theroux, Josh Lucas meet Christian Bale in the movie An American Psycho, a movie based in the book of the same name by Bret Easton Ellis. In it, Bateman is a wealthy New York investment banking executive with a psychopathic ego.
Director Werner Herzog directed Rescue Dawn a movie based on a US pilot’s real story when his plane was shot down over the Laos jungle during the Vietnam World. Christian Bale had to lose a lot of weight for this movie.
3:10 of Yuma gives Bale the opportunity to show another side of his acting career. Together with Russell Crow they star in this western movie. Here, Bale’s performance is outstanding.
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