where's the story?

Rating: 1/10 (27 May 2000)

Okay, I admit it, I didn't plan to see this movie in a theater, but it happened that I had to see it in a sneak-preview, so... this film was absolutely meaningless to me, without a decent story and without a real good actor, and I mean actor; Reese Witherspoon is always wonderful to watch. You have this successful guy with money, a nice girlfriend, lots of friends and lots of pressure he can't bear and for compensation he just walks around, killing homeless people, prostitutes and friends. This was the one movie in a long time I was really upset about; don't get me wrong, I love films like the Scream-Trilogy or The Matrix, films with a lot of blood and violence, but "American Psycho" uses violence only for the sake of violence itself, to satisfy the audience's voyeuristic bloodlust. And, who would really believe one could shot a couple of policemen, an old lady and several other people in one night without further notice? Sounds more like some kind of tasteless comedy than a movie that wants to be taken seriously.