The Machinist (2004)

The Machinist rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.6/10· 440K votes

Rotten Tomatoes77%

Metacritic61%

TMDb7.521/10· 6K votes

With 77% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.6/10 on IMDb and 61/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been positive.

About The Machinist

Trevor, an insomniac lathe operator, experiences unusual occurrences at work and home. A strange man follows him everywhere, but no one else seems to notice him.

Cast of The Machinist

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  Christian Bale

  as Trevor Reznik

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  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  as Stevie

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  Aitana Sánchez-Gijón

  as Marie

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  John Sharian

  as Ivan

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  Michael Ironside

  as Miller

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  Lawrence Gilliard Jr.

  as Jackson

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  Reg E. Cathey

  as Jones

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  Anna Massey

  as Mrs. Shike

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  Matthew Romero Moore

  as Nicholas

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  Robert Long

  as Supervisor Furman

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  Colin Stinton

  as Inspector Rogers

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  Craig Stevenson

  as Tucker

The Machinist facts

Budget

$5M

Box office

$8.2M

Our take on The Machinist

Brad Anderson's 2004 psychological thriller follows Trevor, a lathe operator whose crippling insomnia begins to warp the boundary between what is real and what his exhausted mind conjures. A stranger only he seems to notice shadows him at work and home, and the film patiently lets that paranoia curdle into dread. It leans on mood, unease and a slow accumulation of small wrongnesses rather than shocks, so it rewards patient viewers who like their thrillers cold, cerebral and morally uneasy. If you enjoy character-driven mysteries where the puzzle lives inside one damaged man's head, this bleak, tightly focused drama is worth seeking out.