The Reagan Era, gutted.

Rating: 9/10 (25 April 2000)

It's an intriguing, if fairly shallow, premise - cross the protagonists of "American Gigolo" (Julian Kaye) and "Psycho" (Norman Bates) - and offer up the adventures of a designer-clad "American Psycho" (Patrick Bateman) as a satire on soulless 1980s consumerism and social hypocrisy. It works, though not as complexely as such other recent social allegories as "Silence of the Lambs," "Crash," "Eyes Wide Shut," "Fight Club" and "American Beauty" - and, like those films, not for everyone.