Cartoonish Comedy

Rating: 8/10 (6 July 2001)

This film is, rather surprisingly, nearly devoid of gore. It might offend the sort of person who disapproves of the violence in "Roadrunner" cartoons, but I mean really, you're renting a movie with the word "psycho" in the title.
"American Psycho" comes across as much more of a straight-out (and straight-faced) comedy than I had been led to expect. The idea of satirizing a subculture that's been dead for well over a decade is a bit perplexing, but perfectly in keeping with the film's surreal cartoonishness.

This cartoonishness perhaps does not serve the secondary characters (or the plot, assuming there's supposed to be one) well, but Christian Bale portrays his preposterous character brilliantly, and I was kept entertained throughout.