Christian Bale is marvelous here. His best performance.

Rating: 10/10 (25 July 2011)

Christian Bale is one of the best actors of our time, and he really showed it back in 2000 with his underrated performance in American Psycho. American Psycho, in my opinion, is his best performance. With every film he does, he always tries very hard, and you can tell with his performance in this film.
Bale plays Patrick Bateman, a wall street worker who cares too much about appearance and not really about anyone else. But secretly, he is a sociopath that murders a ton of people, including hookers and co-workers.
Thats basically the movie. It may not sound like a lot, but oh yes it is. The scenes with the murder are the most engaging. American Psycho is non stop entertaining, and its Bale who holds out interest.
Never before have I seen a more disturbed maniac than Patrick Bateman. Bale brings the life into this psycho, and you can't take your eyes off of him. Though he's such a horrible person, I liked him, and its hard to like a sociopath. But when Christian Bale is that sociopath, its hard not to.
Bale is the heart and soul of American psycho. Besides him, you won't be able to take your eyes off of it, and there is some dark humor here that takes off. I have seen American psycho numerous times, and there are tons of scenes that I look forward to. As demented as this film is, its also brilliant.
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