Official Score = 3 1/2 Devils[/caption]Before Christian Bale (Equilibrium) became an international box office sensation with having not just revived the (at that time) dead, 'Batman' series, with the, 'Dark Knight' series, there is a movie... (and although it is tough to say this, because I am also a huge fan of the, 'Dark Knight' series), but a movie that was based on the Bret Easton Ellis novel of the same name that in my opinion, may actually be better then the Dark Knight series... And that movie being, American Psycho (2000)!
Written by: Mary Harron (The Moth Diaries), Guinevere Turner (Chasing Amy) & Directed by: Mary Harron. Starring: Christian Bale, Justin Theroux (Mulholland Drive), Josh Lucas (Hulk), Bill Sage (Boiler Room), Chloë Sevigny (Zodiac), Reese Witherspoon (Fear), Samantha Mathis (Buried), Matt Ross (The Aviator), Jared Leto (Urban Legends) & Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man).
You know, the truth is, is the only fault I could really find with this movie, is the producers, and the damage they did by doing a shockingly bad sequel! I mean the cast is great... (Well I mean check it out above!) I loved the story and how the message was of the greed and ultimate degradation, and pointlessness of some of the filthy rich in the 1980s!
What I mean by this is that, Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale), is a young well to do rich man, who gets all the ladies, and is working for his father's company...
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Patrick Bateman... Power broker, wealthy playboy, and serial killer...[/caption]The problem though is that Patrick Bateman is bored... Other then trying to outshine the rest of the world, he is bored... So much so that he comes in to work and ignores most everyone by listening to his walkman, he also goes to great excess to prove that he is better then everyone else, (so much so, that he nearly freaks out when he discovers that some of his colleagues may actually have better business cards then he does!
But Patrick Bateman has a secret... A blood lust, that he is about to release... The only problem is that when he does so, it begins to consume him, as he starts to loose it more and more, and act out his favorite murder scenes from some of the most violent horror movies of the 1980s... It will take Detective Donald Kimball (Willem Dafoe) to stop him before Patrick Bateman is allowed to take out the power elite!
But is he really killing these people, or is this just the delusional fantasies of a bored rich kid?
Like I said above, I really can't complain, the only thing I didn't like about this movie was how bad the sequel was... Otherwise I have to admit that everything about this movie worked real nicely for me, and if you haven't seen it yet, and if you get a chance to try it out, do so, you might find the same thing as well!
http://youtu.be/2GIsExb5jJU
