Had a personal day yesterday and picked out a movie I figured my girlfriend didn't want to see (and boy was I right, for multiple reasons).

Bale phones in his performance with a subpar Cockney accent that doesn't fool ANYONE, the script is predictable and the dialogue is flat and boring and makes you cringe so many times you start fearing for your health.

I was close to leaving the theater at multiple occasions, and I was never as close as during the "fight" scene outside Bale's house. At that point, one thinks someone in the crew should've had the integrity to raise his or her voice and say they should just go ahead and scrap the whole thing. Cut their losses.

It felt like a two hour and thirty minute Disney Channel-straight-to-DVD movie that could've easily been compressed to 60 minutes.

The only demographics I see enjoying this are kids, and male car buffs in their 60s that still daydream about winning "that" race and riding down into the sunset with that girl from high school they were too scared to speak to speak to 45 years ago.

For Bale, whose been on a roll in decent years, this movie is blemish of the worst kind. Sucks.