Strangely crafted film held together by Christian Bale's genius performance

Rating: 8/10 (3 December 2017)

Kids, Bruce Wayne was a serial killer 5 years before he became Batman. Remember that.
This movie is very brutal and creepy in pretty much all aspects. Patrick Bateman is a materialistic and shallow Wall Street dude by day and a murderer by night and his attitude doesn't even change much. None of the other characters seem to honestly care about him, nor does he care about them. However, the supporting cast still helps to build the atmosphere a lot and add to the story. He fits so well into his Wall Street life that nobody considers him to stand out. I don't class this as a horror film, but it is still graphic.
After Bateman kills his first major victim in Paul Allen (Jared Letohnonobodycaresaboutyou) in a spectacular fashion (with older music accompanying him; a running theme), you assume that Bateman's experienced with cleaning up murders, given how well he does it to Allen. When the detective (Willem Dafoe, the Green Goblin from the original Spider Man films) arrives, you wonder how Bateman doesn't immediately trigger so many alarm bells.
The conversations that Bateman has within his head are so fitting and very well written and add quite a lot to his character. Christian Bale's (at the head of two movies with 'American' in the title despite being English) performance is brilliant to the point where I have to give it its own rating of probably an 8.7/10. Patrick Bateman has been put alongside my favourite movie characters. He's a cool lunatic who just kills people in an insanely unique way.