American Psycho

Rating: 8/10 (1 July 2011)

I have to be perfectly honest with you, I only read parts of the 1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis. The snatches of text that I read were enough to repulse me to the umpteenth degree.
American Psycho, directed by Mary Harron, and starring notable actor Christian Bale, is nothing less than fascinating and intriguing. This is why I would be amiss if I gave it anything less than an 8.
I want to begin with stating the cons of this film.
I am sadly disappointed by the disappointing cinematography. The actual look of the footage seems poor.
A very big disappointment for me, and I don't want you to think of me as a terribly evil person, but I found there was TOO little killing the film. This film is titled American Psycho, but I think the way Mary Harron and Gueniverre Turner handled the material, it should have been called American Metrosexual/Narcissist.
You might be wondering by now, what did I like about the 2000 film adaptation.
I loved Christian Bale's performance. At first, I believed it was fake. I thought he was doing a terrible acting job.
Then I reviewed the film again. It seemed that he was doing a parody of a fully narcissistic person.
Roger Ebert and I enjoyed how Christian Bale acted in this film with no reservations whatsoever. Instead, he delved deep into psychosis and vanity without any regards (and in the acting world, that's a brilliant thing.) Kudos to Christian Bale.
I think what makes this film enigmatic is that it is a stunning, satirical portrait of narcissism, vanity, conspicuous consumption, and immorality.
What makes the film better is in the end, discovering that Patrick Bateman might not have actually murdered anyone, but rather imagined it all in his sick head.