Just because most foreign films that are imported to the US are of superior quality (that being, after all, the reason they are imported) doesn't mean that other countries don't make their share of formulaic movies. The most surprising thing about THE MACHINE is the oversupply of talent
that went into this wholly routine thriller.
Dr. Marc Lacroix (Gerard Depardieu), a psychiatrist specializing in treatment of the criminally insane, has invented a machine to examine the inner workings of the brain. His chosen test subject is Michel Zyto (Didier Bourdon), an impotent psychopath who has stabbed four women to death. But the
machine has an unforeseen result: it tra...
Released:
1994
Rated:
NR
Length:
96 mins