Patrick Bateman is NOT Hannibal Lecter, get it right!

Rating: 1/10 (15 November 2007)

I watched this movie, seeing its good reviews; in hopes of having: 1. a good movie villain who I could root for 2. a good hero, whom I could also root for and 3. a good story line......I got none of them. I only watched about 1/2 this movie before I shut it off because I was falling asleep. Patrick Bateman is such an idiot, he tries to be all sophisticated yet evil at the same time, but he fails miserably. He's trying to copy Hannibal Lecter but sucking at it. You could tell from the start that he's evil, he says it about 50 times. And he always says "Im gonna kill you". Thats really subtle. He does NOT have the style of killing that Hannibal Lecter does either, Lecter kills people in unique, interesting, and sneaky ways. Bateman does it so blatantly. His first victim is a homeless guy and his dog. He sits there and taunts a homeless guy, then stabs him. Then his dog barks at him so he stomps the poor thing to death. What kind of wuss is he? Can he not fight someone face-to-face? His second victim is a co-worker. But, he gets him drunk first. Then covers the furniture and carpet of his house and invites him over. They talk for 10 minutes then he hits him while off guard with an axe. I could tell for 10 minutes that he was going to kill him, hes not sneaky at all. Then...I guess I dozed off. And he describes himself as some kinda super villain. Hes pathetic!