Surprisingly boring

Rating: 2/10 (13 May 2000)

There was so much hype around this film that it was hard to go into it without any preconceptions. I tried to read the book ages ago but was bored stiff by the descriptions of what Patrick Bateman wore and all his expensive doo-dad's.
When I heard that the movie was going to be done very tongue in cheek I was pretty apprehensive about it - that could go so so wrong. In actual fact it did not go all that wrong. It was not funny (at least not to me) especially in the way I thought it would be done and the way it was portrayed in the teasers. I expected it to be cartoonish and it was not. But I also expected it to be disturbing to some degree and it was not. I find the fact that it was not disturbing very disturbing. This is a story of a sociopathic serial killer - who kills many people and kills them fairly graphically on screen. And yet it was not all that disturbing.. I guess that says something about me.. I was bored and just wanted the movie to be over. I guess some of the book really did creep through to the film.