Christian Bale is a great actor. And there arent very many of them. Opposite today's Rober DeNiro you can see how DeNiro has lost his way and no longer caresa bout his roles. He walks thru them to collect a paycheck.

But not Bale. He becomes the character. It's an amazing transformation. He's the one to watch in this movie.

The film itself unfortunately doesnt rise to the occasion. It's reminisent of a Coen Brothers movie when they were good, but not as clever.

The acting is very good and the movie looks good. Sometimes however, it's overly political and that brings it down a notch.

It also runs wll over 2 hours which today, for non-super hero mves can be a death knell.

There are many segments taht just drone on and could bave been cut back to make the action movie more quickly. Some don't even help the storyline.