Paul's All Time Favorite Movie #4

Rating: Null/10 (7 May 2001)

I must warn you, if you go into this movie just wanting to watch a movie...a good movie in an American Beauty sort of way, you won't like American Psycho. But if you watch it for what it is (a satire of wealthy New York business men in the 80's), you might actually love this movie...that is the second time you've watched it. I knew what to expect, having already read the book by Bret Easton Ellis, and to tell the truth...if I hadn't read the book I might not have understood the ending, which confused a lot of people. If you actually pay close attention to how many times people confuse people with somebody else in the movie, you'll understand the ending. I mean the central reason Patrick Bateman gets away with murdering is everybody thinks he's Paul Allen...or is it Paul Owen...or Marcus...I forget. I ranked this movie #4 on my all time list for one reason: Christian Bale is awesome. He takes the voice, the attitude, and the looks of Patrick Bateman right out of the book. He just pulls it off so well that he made an OK movie completely awesome. Like I said if you thought it was OK the first time you saw it, watch it a second time.