Emh..........well..........eh.........WHAT THE HELL was that?

Rating: 6/10 (4 December 2000)

I do not quite know what the hell I saw the other night, watching this film, which is about a yuppie in the eighties who's got it all. He's got a good job in which he needs to do nothing, for his father owns the firm; he's got money; friends; a beautiful girlfriend plus he looks rather well. But somehow all of that has gotten into his mind and seriously screwed him up. He is just emotionless, greedy and narcissistic. That is about everything this film is about, it is a movie about the lifestyle of an eighties yuppie. There is not much more to it, because the film lacks excitement, graphic display of Bateman's deeds and explanation. I think the latter can be obtained by watching the film for the second time, but for the rest, you'll probably have to read the book. What killed' this movie though was it's lack of excitement (fear of Bateman or even thrills when you start wondering what he is up to next). This film is no classic at all, though I think it could have been, if Stanley Kubrick had directed it (even in the same way), for it reminds me a hell of a lot of A Clockwork Orange and because everything Kubrick made is regarded as a masterpiece (although I often do not get why). Without having read the book I can advise you, read it first and then, maybe watch this movie, for the special think about this story could not even be screwed up by the director, whereas the rest could be. Anyway the movie was pretty vague and somewhere between good and bad, which means it was somewhere between a 4 and a 8, so averaging those two grades this one gets a

6 out of 10