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Rating: Null/10 (6 January 2001)

I just rented this for my husband, and after watching had to ask "Why?" Why did we rent it? Why did HE want to see this? Why was this bland piece of crud even filmed? I came here to read other reviews hoping for insight, and found none.
The movie is fairly boring and pointless. There is no plot. There is no character development. We don't know why this guy is so nuts, and we aren't made to care.
It's not a slasher, the violence is too subtle. (Well shot, I must admit, but that's the only thing going for it.) The scariest thing in here is the greasy hair on the actors. It's not a suspense movie, for there is no suspense. Others have called it a black comedy, but it's just not funny. Satire? I don't think so.
Other's have recommended that we read the book to understand it. Utter nonsense. Movies are made as free-standing adaptations of books, not as supplements. If I have to go find a book to understand Bateman, then the movie is a failure. Somebody can't manage to tell a story.
The movie just follows around a "serial killer" as he goes about his daily life. We are made to admire his physic, his clothes, his stinking business card...And the business card bit didn't even impress me and I typeset the things for a living!
I don't wish to spoil things for anyone who is so out of their mind that they are going to go watch this... But there is a little insight - a revelation - at the end that just leaves the audience scratching their heads. Why wasn't this worked into the rest of the movie? Couldn't it have been made more surreal?
Argh! I could go on, but it is pointless. Just like the movie.