Extremely polished, extremely empty piece of expensive trash

Rating: Null/10 (23 September 2000)

What an extremely excessive waste of time! I've seen very few movies that are this obnoxiously unpleasant right from the start of the film - this one is right at the top (or should I say bottom) of this list. The main character of the film is a thoroughly disgusting rich boy who, by day, holds a position of importance in some nondescript office setting and, by night, tortures and kills - mostly killing those less financially fortunate than him. He's meant to be portrayed as a man who is beautiful on the surface but ugly on the inside. However, the character is so empty and so void of any character that he's thoroughly and completely ugly. I find it unbelievable that any of the other characters would find him attractive in any way, shape, or form. During the film, we hear him describe his beautification regimen in the beginning, then later we hear him describe his fear as he hides evidence after a killing. It's bad enough that we have to see this waste of a human being - do we have to hear him talk about his habits and emotions as if we care? This film breaks one of the most important rules for holding an audiences' attention - the main character should be someone that the audience cares about. The murders and the aftermath of these murders contain some very unfunny scenes that I assume were meant to be humorous. Is this tongue-in-cheek humor? Do we even care? I don't think so.