And tonight... I just had to kill a lot of people!

Rating: Null/10 (13 August 2009)

While agreeing with most of what has already been said here about American Psycho, namely that Christian Bale (Patrick Bateman) pulls off what is evidently a complex role in a film with otherwise stellar supporting actors - Willem Dafoe, Chloe Sevigny, who plays the adoring and sexy secretary very well, Justing Therou, by far the best of Bateman's colleagues acting-wise, and Jared Leto, who plays the bragging "gun", the associate who always has to have the last word and the best things, perfectly - there are some aspects of the movie that remain incomprehensible.
At the end of the picture, it is difficult to make sense of things. Harold the lawyer tells Bateman he had dinner with Paul Allen ten days ago, even though Bateman supposedly bludgeoned him to death with an axe.
So, has all we have been seeing thus forth in the movie been inside Patrick Bateman's head? What about his secretary - she uncovers his planner and realises he's nuts - scribbling and drawing murder scenes and clearly exhibiting an unhealthy psychological make-up. Why doesn't she do anything about it? In any case, the movie is well-crafted, of that there is no question. Not having read the book, comparisons are futile. A good pace and a well-presented main character, who appears obsessed with the most trivial details, keeping himself visibly fit, with his 1000 stomach crunches and facial masks and whatnot, but this "outer shell" hides darkness within.
8/10.