This movie is the pits

Rating: Null/10 (31 May 2000)

I really don't care about all this talk at the moment about controversial movies. "Violence is Sin" etc etc. Its all been done before. American Psycho merely takes it a step forward. Why this movie is such a big hit is beyond me.
Christian Bale is good, he always was in movies like A Midsummer Night's Dream and All The Little Animals but one actor can not hold up an entire movie and despite the cast-Reese Witherspoon in a worthless role, Willem Dafoe in an equally inconclusive role and Chloe Sevigny as Patrick Bateman's secretary-the plot is nowhere.
It ends like a child's fantasy "And little Patrick wakes up to find its all a dream" and the gore is so over the top (is it meant to be satirical?), even Jared Leto who is currently on the Hollywood A List after The Thin Red Line and Fight Club offers no sincerity whatsoever. Bateman's obsession with forgotten artists only works in the scene with Leto's Paul, after that becomes tiresome.
American Psycho doesn't know where to start or end. I haven't read the book so I don't know whether this is the fault of the author or Mary Harron the director but it has no beginning, no end, no character development and the little humour it has comes and goes as quickly as some of the characters. It may be a hit in America and the Uk but to me this was a waste of valuable actors and time. Rating = 2/5