I just want to fit in

Rating: 6/10 (16 October 2015)

***SPOILERS*** Black comedy about the pressures of making it big on Wall Street circa 1986 that has one of those stock market whiz kids-Masters of the Universe-stock brokers Pat Bateman, Christian Bale, flip out and completely lose it in order for him to stay on the top of his profession that he, in his deranged mind, feels he's slipping off from. Having a great job at the firm of Pierce and Pierce Mergers and Acquisitions with all the perks that goes along with it, including custom made business cards, Bateman's dark side soon take over as he ends up insane In him feeling that he's not quite up to the job.
That's when a co-worker Paul Allen, Jared Leto, at the firm got the coveted Fisher Account that Bateman felt was to go to him. Getting Allen good and drunk at a local Wall Street watering hole Bateman invited him up to his pad where he ended up hacking the drunk Allen to pieces and dumping his body parts wrapped in garbage bags in a number of neighbor trash dumpsters. In him, for the time being, getting away with murder has Bateman soon go over the top in in his crime spree. That in him abusing and murdering a number of hookers as well as civilians and even police to prove his new found powers in getting away with his crimes.
The fact is that Bateman is not what he thinks he is and it seems that he's living in some kind of fantasy world where nothing in it is what seems to be in real life. Not a likable person in the first place Bateman gets no support from those, fellow Masters of the Univers, he associates with who are in many ways as rotten and back-stabbing as he is. The only person who tries to help him his fiancée Evelyn Williams, Reese Witherspoon, he treats like dirt, like all the women he deals with, and soon leaves him hanging. Now with no one to turn to and completely freaking out Bateman goes over the top in his fantasy world and by the end of the movie has lost his sense of importance as well as grip on reality!
P.S The movie "American Psycho" ironically was released on "Black Friday" April 14, 2000 the day that the New York Stock Market or DJIA took the biggest hit, a drop of 617 points or loss of 5.66%, in its history up until then. But not quite as big a drop as Pat Bateman took which unlike the stock market he never recovered from!