Review of American Psycho (2000) by Freddie K — 10 Aug 2015

Christian Bale in this movie is remarkable in his performance of Patrick Bateman, his actions are sometimes funny, his prowl is dark and you can really make out the disguise he is presenting towards others as he goes on a murderous rampage.

This is also a very well filmed movie, the cinematography is great (particularly in the stair flight chainsaw scene). However, my main issues with this movie is that It could not follow a certain tone to the overall movie.

Don't get me wrong, I like when genres get infused with one another but in this film, it seemed messy. For example, In the first act of the movie it established a dark yet funny tone to it, you wanted to see murder but you didn't want it to be found out and you wanted this character to remain anonymous.

By the second and third act, this movie was a slasher, it was a comedy it was a drama it was a fantasy....The scenes were acted well but I wish they would've stuck to the dark and anonymous tone instead of making the character cocky and then bursting into tears about what he's done at the end.

Patrick Bateman should've sustained a disguise and presented no emotion because that's what the film did especially well in the first act and what I was looking forward to for the entire running time.

This is still a very well acted and very well made movie to watch, you just may need to be understand that it'll put everything it can onto you.