Frightening - but not in the way you would think...

Rating: Null/10 (10 August 2000)

For me, the most frightening thing about this movie was the fact not only did I know people like Patrick Bateman in the '80's, I STILL know people like that...
I never read the book, but the plot was quite not exactly brilliant and in many ways, unsatisfactory. However, the acting was good, and I thought the way all the cliched stuff of the '80's was brought was brilliant. AS were Batemens comments - particularly those in nightclubs... As for the horror and depravity of it all - for me, the movie just seemed to aimlessly plod along like a needle stuck in the groove of a record with the same thing being rehashed again and again, and when the needle finally skipped out, it was only to sink back into another endless repetitive groove... This meant I would keep sinking into a stupour in the long hours (or so it seemed) between plot changes and thus didn't really appreciate if something had happened after seeing the 'horror' the first time...