I saw it for Christian Bale, a fine performance in a so-so movie.

Rating: Null/10 (19 November 2006)

I long have had this movie on my mental list of things to see. I was expecting something totally different.
The movie in essence is a parody of the modern American businessman, especially those in the financial and trading businesses in New York. The lead is Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman, good looking, fit, but shallow, really empty, inside. A really funny scene has men comparing business cards, and at the end Bateman can only see murder of the one with the best card as a way of saving face.
There's quite a list of good actors here -- Justin Theroux, Josh Lucas, Chloë Sevigny (as Bateman's secretary), Reese Witherspoon (as Bateman's fiancée), Jared Leto, and Willem Dafoe as Donald Kimball, the detective trying to solve the disappearance of one of Bateman's co-workers.
SPOILERS. We see Bateman murdering co-worker Allen because his were the most impressive business cards. He hires hookers, has fun with them, and murders them. In one scene we see several bodies in a closet, wrapped in clear plastic. But in the end when he tells his attorney he has killed Allen, and many others, the attorney says that's impossible, I had lunch with Allen in London just recently. And, near the end we see a character that supposedly was murdered. So how much of it was in his mind? Maybe it doesn't matter, his whole fixation on himself was his psychosis.