Mildly funny.

Rating: 4/10 (6 May 2009)

Flawed masterpiece? No. Classic? No. Mildly amusing satire of a past decade? Yes. There are some funny moments, but not enough to maintain a feature film. This is the first Bale film I saw since "Empire of the Sun" and didn't even make the actor connection until someone pointed it out to me. He plays Patrick Bateman very tongue in cheek and this is somewhat entertaining at times. Reese Witherspoon has a very small role as his bimbo girlfriend, and her acting talents are wasted. The cat-and-mouse plot line between our "Psycho" and cop Defoe is not fleshed out and fizzles. In the end, its as if the filmmakers and actors got tired of this effort and just said we're done. I would write more, but I have to return some videotapes.