As realistic as it gets

Rating: 7/10 (17 December 2004)

American psycho is black comedy  the "pulp fiction" of horror/thriller genre with Christian Bale's excellent performance.
As believable as it gets!
Bale's character Patrick Bateman's does nothing but renting horror movies, bringing prostitutes into his house, having sex and taping it, figuring out what kind of visit card to have, doing presses each morning, doing face masks, taking care of his body's handsomeness. One day he meets Paul Allen. This guy somehow pisses Patrick off. Patrick invites him to see his place and axes. For the fans of the original "Texas chainsaw massacre 74", there's a pleasant surprise  it's one of Patrick's favorites here There's an episode Patrick's doing exercises watching it. Later he'll "use" the chainsaw himself. Perhaps some of you will find "American psycho" lame, but it's really deep. The point is  one day Patrick realizes that he's nobody in this life and when he sees a homeless man with a dog, he is mostly afraid of the same thing will happen to him. And he commits his first murder. I just hated that part. Despite of that scene, the rest of movie has a really slight violence. I say the general part makes black comedy. The scene where Patrick completely naked holding a chainsaw pursues his favorite hooker after she sees the dead bodies is funny. This film can be understood many ways, but the main moral I think is  one don't have to be look like a degenerate, walk with a saw, kitchen knife or an ax under the coat, wear a mask or somebody's skinned face (like Leatherface) to be a maniac killer. The only problem is the seduction of this film. Don't get me wrong, but it has some. Really!