Eh, read the book

Rating: 8/10 (21 April 2000)

Interesting movie, but too much was crammed into too short of time. I spent much of the film admiring how craftily the screenwriters juxtaposed chapters together in order to fit in as much of the book as possible. I just sort of question what they left in...
Good parts about the movie, Robert Palmer tunes and mullets on business people. Christian Bale was awesome. (Even if he did seem like a Saturday night live "80's Dude!"
Bad parts? Basically, the extreme gore really wasn't there. The whole punch of the book was that no matter how much he killed and raped, and how horribly he did it, you were more offended by his love of Hughey Louis. This was somehow lacking. Plus he wasn't drinking his own urine or stopping people on the streets to lecture them about BMW engines, which is all good stuff.
Somebody will make it again in a few years. I'll check that out.