Excellent film! A darkly comic masterpiece of human consciousness

Rating: 9/10 (17 February 2012)

American Psycho is an epic mental masterpiece of disturbed human consciousness. At times it as almost hilarious, as much of the situations within the film are so blunt and ludicrous that one cannot help but find them funny. It presents a fascinating perspective of a disturbed man's mind, and society as a whole. Patrick Bateman displays psychotic and homicidal tendencies in plain view of both his fiancée and his coworkers, but they are so engrossed within their own affairs that they take no notice of it, even when he clearly states that he killed "twenty, maybe forty people". The ending of the movie is obscure, which can be seen as a positive approach as it allows for the viewer to come to their own conclusions, or a negative approach as it leaves many loose ends within this already strange and incomprehensible film. But whether the viewer chooses to believe that Bateman did in fact brutally murder over a dozen people, or that all of the incidences simply occurred within his restless and unhinged mind, it cannot be denied that this is a fascinating and wildly entertaining tragic masterpiece.