Drives you insane...one way or another!! (Some Spoilers)

Rating: 7/10 (23 February 2003)

I only read the Book half way through-I left it because the gory parts are in the latter chapters - Patience is not one of my virtues.
I must say the movie is better, because the violence starts in 20 minutes. If Anthony Hopkin's Hannibal Lector is voted the most scariest movie Serial Killer, then Christian Bale's Patrick Bateman is the Sexiest-he sure does get my vote on the shower scenes and aerobic routes. Bale is the first choice, and I am glad Leo DiCaprio left the role because imagine a boy with an axe!?! it reminds me of Children of the corn.
Set between October 1987 and February 1988, British-Born Bale gives a bravura performance as a Yuppie working on Wall Street-which was in fashion to have wealth at that time. Patrick Bateman maybe devastatingly handsome, charming, dressed in Valentino Couture, highly intelligent, great career but becomes a Serial Killer - hey! nobody's perfect!?! As Bateman, his wooing technique that Serial Killers undergo to lessen the victim's defences-is scary, his persuasive gibberish to make his victim's unaware of his deliberate actions onto them can give you the shakes.
Reese Withespoon is wonderful and a great-looking actress to play Bateman's fiancée who is not treated well, and Matheson as the Mistress that does not get treated any better - they get cabs to go out with Bateman, but he later rides in a Limo to attract Victims!!
Chole Sevigny kicks ass as a naive Secretary, who later is pardoned by Patrick Bateman.
There are scenes that are wrong about Serial Killers, for example Patrick is running around with a Chainsaw in a public condo-which is too noisy for any Serial Killer to use because they must be stealthy to kill a victim, and avoid getting caught. That also includes being butt naked!
But on the whole, it is a movie to show people what is it like to be a Serial Killer-and it can be a B****, when a lot of fantasies of violence run though your mind at any given time and you gotta allure people into your trap to ease your urge to torture and murder, oh and don't forget a souvenir and dispose the body, visit the scene of crime to get more satisfaction of your urges ...Oh boy! it is not easy huh!?!
(Spoiler starts here) This movie is not half-bad, better than some movies I have seen, especially American Psycho 2-what a waste of negatives!!
You can tell number 2 is crap when somebody who is not 'Christian Bale' is now playing Bateman, and how can a weak little girl kill off a Serial Killer that has a good physique? what I dread is that girl said
"I want to track down other Serial Killers - I can't wait to grow up" Agggggggggghhhhhh! why did I rent this darn film??
Then Yasmin Bleeth look-a-like Mila Kunis from the 70's Show turns up, OK!! she is attractive, but her acting and her vocal narration -Sheeeeeesh let's not go there! and how did she ever get to be a surviving Victim? Chloe Sevigny was the only survivor-it does not make sense. I beg of you, save yourselves and don't watch American Psycho 2, because American Psycho 1 is far better.