A strangly pleasing film

Rating: Null/10 (27 December 2000)

The trailer for the film is very misleading, the clips available before its release led you to believe that it was an "in your face" serial killer movie. Another one to add to the long list of them. I generally like the killer films, unless there's something really bad with them. When I saw American Psycho the first thing that came to mind as that it wasn't quite what I expected, it was a lot better. It is a combination of seriousness with surrealness, lunacy and brutality in the darkest of black comedies I've ever seen (a combination I'd never seen all in the same movie). When I left the cinema it actually took a couple of days to decide whether I liked it or not. Then I will say that I liked it a lot, it was a strangley pleasing film, probably because you can actually relate to it in a way. How many times have you bought something and found out someone you know has gone one better. Then American Psycho takes that feeling a few steps further in the mind of a madman, peer pressure, work related stress, got to have the latest and most expensive looking. Go watch it...it's good.