senseless violence!

Rating: 5/10 (11 November 2018)

I was really excited for this film to see the very positive reviews from my favorite critics. However, to my dismay, this film was merely a two and a half hour of nothing but violence.
I have nothing against violence; my second favorite film of all time is A Clockwork Orange. However, in A Clockwork Orange, there was an interesting story to follow and the violence was a plot device used by the director in order to truly make the scene as dramatic as possible. But if violence is all you have to offer then the film would have nothing to entertain
The main character is a man named Patrick Bateman who is played by Christian Bale who gives an outstanding performance. The character himself is quite interesting and has some great dialog. I love how in ever since he gives off a feeling of depressed haterade, and as a result, it gives a suspenseful tension where he could just lose it all.
But sadly the conflicts that follow that the character most goes from are doll and reprieve for we see time and time again a pointless violence murder committed by the main character that serves not to further the story but merely to show since that are pleasing to the eye with the great cinematography but this may never rid of the feeling of your time being wasted. There was a single interesting premise that suggested that the whole thing was in his head. However, this is in the last 20 minutes of this two and a half har film. I would for preferred that they payed more time and attention for this plotline rather than show pointless murders over and over.
I have heard in an interview were the author of the novel defended those arguments of the film saying that it was supposed to be a dark comedy. Now as I have not read the novel I canot say if this is true or not. However, this film is ever clearly presented as a drama. And even If it was a comity I would need more than just senseless violence,
And that is why I give American Psycho a 5 out of 10