Well done, but not as good as it could have been....

Rating: 8/10 (15 April 2000)

I thought American Psycho was very well-acted and a well-done film... However... They strayed away too much from the book, which I feel was a mistake... I obviously know they had to tone down the violence considerably, but I felt the film was a bit too tame... The film also implies several times that all of the murders are only in Bateman's mind, which makes it a lot less effective than the book... The book was brutal, devastating, but impossible to put down at the same time... The movie doesn't have the same impact, and that's a shame because it could have...