american psycho, stay away from me

Rating: 6/10 (25 April 2001)

If you haven't read the book and you've watched the movie, chances are you didn't appreciate the movie as much as it should be. I'm not saying it's good, or bad, I'm just saying that there are alot of things that you miss out on understanding if you haven't read the book. Just like the book, the atmosphere of intensity in certain situations is amplified to a drastically hopeless decibal. The most interesting scene is the shooting rampage towards the end. This movie is not really a horror movie, or even a thriller, in a way it is a satire. The author Brett Easton Ellis satires just about everything. The ending to this movie is played off of a certain interpretation of the book, though you probably got the ending in the movie it is much more difficult to understand the ending of the book. In the book it is left very vague, like shakespeares play Hamlet, it's left open to a dozen philosophies. It's up to you which one you choose. Christian Bale was perfect for the role he was in, it was very specified in the book that Patrick Bateman is supposed to be a handsome, classy character who reads the Gentleman's Quarterly (GQ) on a very regular basis. Patrick Bateman was believable as that figure. One thing I must specify on, In the wicked magazine some guy left a comment saying that Christian Bale was no good for the role, he was too soft looking. Well, that was the whole point, Patrick Bateman is not like Joe Spinnell in Maniac, though some of his actions are similar. Patrick Bateman is everything you look for in a guy, extremely wealthy, ambitious, intelligent, polished, tasteful, good looking, etc. He is not someone who you develop fear for, and that's the irony, because underneath all that he is an all American psycho!