If I hear "The Greatest Love Of All" one more time...people will die!

Rating: 8/10 (25 April 2015)

American Psycho is a lot of different things...80's period piece, satire and social commentary. There also has a heavy dose of black comedy, along with horror and brutality. Combining the various elements work well as the team of writer Guinevere Turner and writer/director Mary Harron laid the groundwork for a very good film. Without being preachy, Harron has a lot to say about the yuppies and many of the social problems that existed in the 1980's. Christian Bale did an excellent job as a NYC executive that does his best to fit in and has terrible taste in music. He also is an amoral psychopath and brutal serial killer. To tell the truth, if all I had to lisen to Huey Lewis and Whitney Houston eventually I would go crazy as well and leave a stack of corpses behind me for sure. American Psycho is a great film that works on many levels and shows the dark side to yuppie culture that was huge in the 80's. There is a lot of truth in this film and is well performed and structured.