Not a black comedy, but a keenly dark insight...

Rating: 7/10 (15 April 2000)

I probably would have liked this movie a bit more if I hadn't gone in expecting a Black Comedy, as some of the other comments on this site lead me to believe.
American Psycho is well-crafted and thought provoking. It is certainly not a Black Comedy, and I repeat myself only because I want to stress this point to anyone who might be thinking of seeing this film. If you liked "I Shot Andy Warhol" or "Kiss of the Vampire", you might find this movie tolerable, but don't go expecting to see a comedy of any sort. If anything, this film is a modern tragedy, along the same lines of the other two mentioned; we follow a protagonist's psychotic break, and witness how it goes unnoticed by the people around him. He's a killer in a world of faceless, interchangeable debutantes. Personally, I wouldn't have cared if he'd continued to kill every last one of them...and maybe that's the point.