Great, except for the end

Rating: 8/10 (6 December 2009)

For most of this film's run, I was in agreement with those who have named this one of the films of the decade. It's just exuberant, hilarious, gripping and spot-on. I'm very vocal in my dislike of Christian Bale's acting style - it feels way too old fashioned to me (if he had been acting in the '50s and '60s, he'd definitely be among the best actors of his time, but nowadays, it just comes off as ridiculously methody), but American Psycho is pitched as a cartoon, and he fits in well. Most of the set-pieces are tremendous, most notably his axe murder set to Huey Lewis' "Hip to Be Square". I love every time he goes into the super-long descriptions of the music and artists he's listening to. The problem is, after the climactic sequence, the film takes the kind of twist that was all too prominent between the late '90s and today. Suffice it to say, it's not much more interesting than, "It was all just a dream". It flops to the floor like a dead fish and then ends. Definitely disappointing in that way, but I can totally dig the bulk of the movie.