Hilarious and dark, sometimes stilted

Rating: 8/10 (16 April 2000)

This movie is great, but I have a taste for mixing the hilarious with the perverse. It's great to see them transposed.. it makes the dark seem darker and the light seem lighter. This movie was generally a good adaption of the book. The book is really revolting, I had to stop reading at parts and go do something else before I could continue (and I consider myself a pretty sick guy). You really couldn't sit through the movie if it portrayed what was shown in the book. The closest movie I've seen to something like that was "Salo: 120 days of Sodom", which didn't even come close to the violence in American Psycho (the novel). The only problem with the movie's adaption is that it left out some very telling things - like the fact that Bateman's mother is in a mental hospital, and the episode where he murders an ex-gf, which further sketches out his hostility towards women.