Movie Review: American Psycho (2000)

It's Christian Bale! He's American! He's a business man! Oh yeah, and he's a deranged serial killer. American Psycho is a 2000 black comedy film staring Christian Bale. I only mentioned Christian's name because there isn't really any other star of this film. There are a few supporting characters, but Bale is really the whole purpose of this film. If you didn't have Christian Bale in this movie, the movie would just go on, but it would have this huge gap in it. A void really. So, sit back, relax, and read why American Psycho is one of my favorite movies of all time. American Psycho is about Patrick Bateman (played by Bale). He's a guy who works in business and seems completely polite and normal. However, when he leaves work, he is a raving lunatic. He chops peoples heads off, beats up a homeless guy, and makes a raunchy video with a couple of girls. The movie definitely has some uncomfortable scenes, and watching them in a group of other people....well, that would just make things more awkward. The movie is great, the more you watch it, the better it gets. Beware, the movie has some REALLY uncomfortable scenes. I'm not even going to say what they are because they are so weird and disturbing. The graphic violence in this movie has no limits, there will be blood, and in one quick shot, we see a decapitated woman's head in a refrigerator. This is Bale's best role in my mind, because he goes to great lengths to get into the mind of a serial killer. The other thing, is that this film is meant to mock horror films and be taken as a dark/black comedy. If you go into American Psycho and hope to see an intense horror-thriller kind of thing, then you will not enjoy this movie. It will seem boring and you'll feel like your missing the point of this movie. Go into this film and think of it as a black comedy (a really black comedy). Overall, American Psycho is a darkly-comic, grizzly, well acted film that deserves an oscar nomination. Three Stars