Unrated Cut Review

Rating: 8/10 (18 August 2007)

Patrick Bateman is handsome, well educated and intelligent. He is twenty-seven and living his own American dream. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. At night he descends into madness, as he experiments with fear and violence.
I was really in a "not wanting to watch this movie" mood, before watching this movie. I really was worried because I didn't know what to expect. Will it be really bloody and has a lot of violence? Well, surprisingly, the film is more or a dark comedy than a horror.
The kills were not squeamish. Yeah, they were kind of violent, but not in a crude way. They were played like a satire so you really do not feel mad or disgusted by any content of this movie (expect maybe for some random sex scenes).
What I didn't like about this film was the uneven pacing. Sometimes the movie passes really fast and sometimes it halts for a slow scene. It wasn't a huge deal, though. Christian Bale's performance is really different from what I've seen from other films of his. It may be in a good or bad way. I don't know. It was just plain weird.
I'm a bit iffy with this film. It was decent and sometimes just plain horror fun. It wasn't anything spectacular and the pacing was uneven. Still, I'm going to recommend this film just for having a good sense of humor.