Disturbing but aesthetic. Mostly the former.

Rating: 5/10 (26 June 2017)

I have some very mixed feelings about American Psycho. It is, on the one hand, a profoundly disturbing movie that seems pornographic in its depictions of sex and violence. On the other hand, it is a beautifully executed film with eye-catching cinematographic grace. (Christian Bale is scarily attractive as he works out in his immaculate tighty-whities and as he murders. Not to mention that scene where he looks at his own gorgeously toned body in the mirror while having sex two ill-fated women.)
The role of the unreliable narrator is also very interesting. By the end of the film, the movie's comedic elements are coming to the fore as the audience comes to realize that the phantasmagoria of sex and violence was more fantasy than reality.
I have very mixed feelings about the movie as a whole. I was left with an intense feeling of disgust after seeing this movie, but I can understand why someone else might like it.
That person is not me though, and the feeling of disgust hasn't left.
(I saw this on June 20, 2017)