'The Machine': A Comedian's Reckoning with His Wild Lifestyle.

"The Machine" is a movie based on one of Bert Kreischer's stand-up bits, where he plays a fictionalized version of himself who is taken to Russia to make amends for his part in a drunken train robbery decades before. The movie is a gore-steeped shaggy dog story that fails to deliver despite reasonable performances by Kreischer and Mark Hamill. The director, Peter Atencio, can't cook with these ingredients, and the product is bland. The movie is rated R for language, gore, and extreme partying and is currently in theaters.