A very good film that requires some thought to enjoy.

Rating: 8/10 (11 January 2011)

Christian Bale is an enormously talented actor and he is on full display as a psychotic wall street businessman. I usually pan slasher/thriller movies, they tend to annoy me with meaningless gore and overused clichés, but not so with American Psycho. The movie really takes the time to get inside the head of Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) as he acts out his frustration and jealously over life, work, relationships, pretty much everything in increasingly violent and spectacularly homicidal ways.
The entire time you can just feel the madness writhing beneath the surface of Bale's character, and often it slips out in blatantly obvious ways that are overlooked by others or taken as humor, much to their dismay after he hacks them to bits. There is a reoccurring theme of mistaken identity and/or locational confusion. This is important but I don't really want to tell you why, I think it's better if you figure it out for yourself and then wonder. I need to get my own copy of American Psycho so I can see it again at my leisure so that I might pick up on every small detail that might unlock the secrets of the film.