This weeks feature on Rotten Tomatoes is Christian Bale, and people are rightly pissed off that they left American Psycho out of the Top 10 because based on the RT score, it's not high enough. I wondered what the result would be if the goal was to find the BEST PERFORMANCE of Christian Bale's career, and not simply his highest rated movies.

I would hope that you choose based on the performance of Christian Bale in the movie and not because it's your favourite movie or because some other actor died before it was released.

You may choose 3, but I'd like to know your favourite performance of his as well. Maybe rank your Top 3.

I chose:

1. American Psycho
2. Rescue Dawn
3. Harsh Times

In Harsh Times he really creates a sense of volatility. I didn't know what he was going to do next. He puts his all into Rescue Dawn, as well as losing the weight and looking like crap for months. And American Psycho is all Bale. He carries the movie. It's about him, so naturally he does, but to carry it so well and show so many sides to the character; panic, sophisitication, disgust, anger, joviality etc., and still uphold the surface integrity that Patrick Bateman has is truly great.

The Fighter, Terminator Salvation and The Machinist were close to getting on my list. He has so many great performances.

American Psycho
The Prestige
Begins
Harsh Times

1. as Dicky Eklund in The Fighter
2. as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho
3. as Arthur in Velvet Goldmine
4. as Alfred in The Prestige
5. as John Rolfe in The New World

1. Batman (Begins, TDK, TDKR)
2. Prestige
3. American Psycho
4. The Fighter
5. The Machinist


I feel his performance in American Hustle will easily enter in my top 5

Rescue Dawn..

American Psycho

He peaked with 1987's Empire Of The Sun and has been going downhill ever since.

Empire of the Sun and The Newsies are very solid films.

His best role will always be Patrick Bateman though. It's ironic that I wouldn't put Batman anywhere near his top 5.

As great as Nolan's trilogy is, Christian Bale's performances in them weren't anything special.

Bradley Witherberry peaked at birth and has been going downhill ever since.

1. American Psycho
2. The Prestige
3. Batman

My Vote by a large margin

I never saw American Psycho... so...

1. TDKR
2. The Fighter
3. Prestige

Looking forward to his performance in Backseat.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 53721.html

Not so much looking forward to the film, though.

Bale's my favorite Batman, but as far as best performances go.

1. American Psycho
2. Empire of the Sun
3. The Machinist

Films of his I didn't see: I'm Not There, Harsh Times, Reign of Fire, Velvet Goldmine

No contest. American Psycho is not only his best performance, but one of the greatest comedic performances of all time.

Empire of the Sun should have been on that list

Considering only 2 people voted "Other", it seems not a popular enough pick for that.

Christian Bale's whole career is a fantastic performance anyway.

Though still maybe more popular than the likes of Out of the Furnace and The New World, which have zero votes.

Has anybody seen what Bale looks like lately?

It's for a role. Some chubby American politician.

More like for a roll down a hill.

Or a ham roll.