What was that?

Rating: 4/10 (22 March 2012)

American Psycho is a movie above average in execution but ultimately hollow with an anti-climatic ending the like of which I've never seen before. Obviously this is a no-spoiler zone so I can't reveal it, but suffice it to say that rather than the reality-shifting conceit that turns great films (such as Fight Club or Jacob's Ladder) into arguably greater ones, turns this one into a thorough waste of time and effort.
Nothing unique or original in this one. By this time in the 21st century we're all used to disembodied heads and chainsaw massacres by now, right? And if all the right-wing lobbies that complain about sex and violence in movies spend their whole time watching the stuff in order to complain about it, then how come they're not converted into our very own Patrick Batemans? The film actually raises this point itself, with Bateman (Christian Bale), watching Texas Chainsaw Massacre while exercising.
What bothers me more is that films which usually attract such controversy as this usually have the saving grace of being actually quite good - A Clockwork Orange being a notable success in that field. American Psycho, meanwhile, is a fairly average movie, with gory violence that neither shocks nor compels, and thus fails both ways.