Bret Easton Ellis was not given justice!

Rating: 1/10 (26 March 2006)

I love Christian Bale just as much as any other Welsman, but the movie, "American Psycho" was NOT, I repeat, NOT credible to the book. It moved so quickly, and seemed really to have no point. I read the book before I saw the movie, and was really excited to see the movie. My boyfriend and I went to Movie Gallery every weekend to check to see if it was in. Finally, when it was we rented it. By the beginning of the movie, it started in like chapter 7! This might make sense in essence of time, but it made Bateman seem like a senseless killer who randomly puts on plastic coats and axes people in his apartment. It doesn't touch upon the subject of him losing his identity and falling into the pit of the eighties, just him discussing Evian with his friends, then at a club, then killing someone. I am not sure if it really is supposed to be a movie because so much of the book is internal. For example, the description of Phil Collins was its own chapter in the book, but in the movie he was describing it to the two prostitutes. This does make sense, I guess, but it is just another flaw that really did deplete from the character of Patrick Bateman. To someone who hadn't read the book, they would have just thought, "This is a man who is really full of himself, likes sex and kills people for no reason. What an asshole!" Essentially, that is how it could be viewed, but the aspect of his identity, esteem and human need to really be accepted was not thrown into the mix at all, and I think that's what it was missing. Also, it was not bloody enough. Haha, I'm kidding. Oh, yeah, and we watched the edited version, maybe that was the problem. No, I don't think it was. More blood could have only made it 40% better.