Brilliant (this may contain spoilers)

Rating: 9/10 (14 April 2000)

This review contains spoilers for the following films: American Psycho (well, obviously), Fight Club, and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I also ask you to please excuse my primitive spelling, I try to make it up by using over-exuberant vocabulary and syntax.
American Psycho was incredible. I really do not need to go into how great a satire it is because you probably already know it is.
Let's get the numerical/star grading out of the way right now. ***1/2 out of **** or 9 out of 10.
What I am here to talk about is how many similarities there are to this and Fight Club. I felt that Fight Club was one of last year's best pictures, number two on my list, only exeeded by Boys Don't Cry. American Psycho is the tale of a man who is laughed and and not appreciated by most of his colleagues. He is called a "dork" or something that relates to "dork" by many of is superiors and/or co-workers. When he sees some one that has more than him, he creates a fantasy world where he murders these over-achivers in a very sadistic and depraved manner. Fight Club is the tale of a man who is leading a very mundane existance, and being look at as a peon by many of the people he is surrounded, even himself. He creates a fantasy world (that eventually merges into the real world) where he can turn his emotional aggressions into physical ones. I don't mean to go of on a tangent and end up writing a review for Fight Club. In a word: American Psycho acts as a more subtle, toned down Fight Club.
Also, I might add that there is one scene in which the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is being played on a television. Later in the film a hooker runs around an apartment seeing what seems to be hundreds of dead bodies as the American Psycho chases after her with-- what else-- than a chainsaw. There appears to be a reference to the Chainsaw Massacre, the scene in which one of the brat-teenagers stumbles into a room filled with human remains, while being chased by Leatherface. The same sort of editing is used in the scene in American Psycho that was used in the Chainsaw Massacre.