Why??? Why did I see this movie???

Rating: 1/10 (11 October 2002)

As much as any movie lover out there, I don't mind certain levels of gratuitous violence. "American Psycho" though took to a level that it shouldn't have been taken too. (spoiler here) The scene with the homeless man and the two prostitutes was not needed. After the prostitute scene, I had to shut it off. Besides the violence, the shallowness and vileness of Bale's Patrick Bateman made my skin crawl. He is a nut job of the highest order and he needed to be taken out. The only decent scene in this very horrible glimpse into the mind of a yuppie whose gone over the cuckoo's nest was nothing at all. The dialogue in the film was sharp and the performances of Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, and Jared Leto were all right but that was it. The other characters were annoying, shallow, and inept and the setting was too much in the 1980's (very off-putting). Overall, "American Psycho" is a film that no one should see under any circumstances. I give it 1 out of 10.