Fairly good adaptation

Rating: 7/10 (30 November 2009)

I just saw this yesterday. I think Christian Bale is a great actor also in Equilibrium and Batman, and he really does a good job playing Patrick Bateman. Anyway, having also recently read the book, I don't think it did a fair job to the book. Anyway, that is impossible. It is like the adaptation of Watchmen. Simply impossible, so why even try? Nevertheless, both the Watchmen movie and the American Psycho movie has turned out to be rather interesting. A weak aspect of the American Psycho movie was that some of the interesting dialogue was cut out. For example, Ted Bundy's name is mentioned in the book but left out in the movie. It would have been powerful to hear Ted Bundy's name spoken out in the movie, since the Bateman character is incredibly much inspired by Ted Bundy's story. Actually, it is amazing what a genius Breat Easton Ellis is. He is like a living Dostoyevski. His psychological insight into the Bateman character is incredible, and naturally this is impossible to bring to the big screen.