AMERICAN PSYCHO (DIDIER BECU)

Rating: 7/10 (5 September 2003)

A good friend of mine don't wanna see the movie just because he thinks the film can only be a letdown because of the brilliance of the book, I myself never read the book so I can watch it without prejudices that a good book never can match the equality on celluloid. The story is known...a great businessman Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) lives a double life : at office he's the arrogant businessman who cares about the design of his visitcards but outside he is a serial killer (prostitutes are his fave targets) and his life that is dominated by designers and extreme care for the way you look like, but he also is addicted to pornmovies and yuppiemusic (before he starts killing someone, he first reviews a cd...all yuppiemusic like Whitney Houston, Genesis and Huey Lewis And The News). We all know our Patrick Batemans in our world (perhaps your manager huh?) and Christian Bale plays his role in a perfect way, you just hate him from the early start and you just hope he'll be caught as soon as possible, perhaps it's jealousy. The film itself is filmed like the decors Bateman lives in, all pretty cold and no real depth (the kind of yuppies who pretend to be it while their life is just one bulb), never that violent (except the images afterwards) and tons of sex...and for oldies like us, great songs from the eighties! I think this movie could have been better but still an absolute must see for thrillerfanatics.