The slippery-sloppy social and moral satire pays off in only a few categories.

Rating: 7/10 (21 July 2008)

Something for the guys: brutal killings and tense chase scenes. Something for the girls: Racy photos of Christian Bale were reveled around the opening of the movie on the internet, but then it was said they were just stills from the movie, also Reese Witherspoon's presence will attract swarms of viewers eager to see her be legally blonde again. Something for the critics: A dynamic performance from Bale as Patrick Bateman, the supple design and layout of the 80's is superb, and the direction by Mary Harron. Something for the trashcan: The sloppiness near the end, and the fact that it's too off-beat to ever deem a particular genre. Horror? Drama? Comedy? Musical(certain parts throughout the film have Bale doing rather interesting things while listening to Genisis and other 80's bands)? I can't say without giving away much, so do I recommend it? Yes and no. Again the off-beatness makes it one of those fast-forward-certain-parts, scenes that are okay are really okay, and parts that aren't, well, aren't. Lets say for example you are one of those who liked the book - to let you know, your one of the fifty in the world that weren't mad at Bret Easton Ellis for making what woman-support groups called "filth" - then you might not like the book, it's a politial satire rather then slasher, a character focus rather then a character study and most importantly you can see the killings, they didn't exactly jump out of the page did they? Jered Leto, Willeum Dufoe and Reese Witherspoon have nice appearances.