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Patrick Bateman is young, white, beautiful, ivy leagued, and indistinguishable from his Wall Street colleagues. Shielded by conformity, privilege, and wealth, Bateman is also the ultimate serial kille...( read more 
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MCT:August 23, 2008Bale shows he is capable to lead with this chilling character he portrays.
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MCT:August 20, 2008Both extremely disturbing and hilarious at the same time, which is an odd combination :) At the scene where they're comparing business cards, I nearly fall off the chair laughing. "It's Hip To Be A SQUARE!" LOL
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MCT:August 20, 2008
Bateman is such a macaabre character, and because of that the film is both hilarious and frightening.
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MCT:August 18, 2008
Christian Bale did an awesome job in this! I luv this movie it made me laugh a lot and I got very confused @ the end LoL
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MCT:August 17, 2008I recently bought this flick, mainly do the the reviews I read here on Flixter. While all in all worth a watch, it did not live up to the hype I read. Perhaps I was expecting to much from Bale. IM a Huge fan of his work and that was another deciding factor in my purchase. I can see a difference a few years have made in his acting ability. Like I said its worth a watch but I should have saved it for cable.
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MCT:August 17, 2008
Christian Bale did well, and this was disturbing, but there wasn't really a plot or a point. Somewhat entertaining, but I'm getting the impression that the book is far better.
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MCT:August 16, 2008
I got a kick out of this movie. Yes, it wasn't a very good plot, or even very well acted. I expected more from Christan Bale, although he does play a convincing maniac. How can you not get a kick out of a horribly OCD man, putting on rain gear and tarping his all white apartment; to chop up his friends while listening to Huey Lewis?
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MCT:August 15, 2008A lot of people gave this great reviews, at least of what I saw, but I thought it was kind of a flop. I mean I love Christian Bale. He's a great actor, and he did a great job as this role, but just the story was really dumb to me. I have to say that this was one of the worst movies I've seen Bale do. I expected a lot out of this and all I got was a big turd.
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MCT:August 14, 2008No one knows just how much negativity I can let go towards this movie. This was truly an upsetting. I had high hopes for this, but they were all crushed.
Christian Bale has been able to pull off some great performances. He was just fooling around with his character. The main problem for me was having to hear that jumbled, cocky voice. He was not up to par for a killer's personality. I desperately wanted to get away from it all half-way through it all.
Well, the plot is nothing special either. There isn't even a plot anyway, like most slasher films. I really don't know what else to say about this. It was a disappointment. That's it in a nutshell -
MCT:August 11, 2008
''I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.''
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
Christian Bale: Patrick Bateman
Christian Bale is arguably modern cinema's
biggest rising actors from the UK going to an all boy's school in Bournemouth originally.
I sometimes consider hailing him as the greatest performer of this generation, particularly when I watched his leap-to-fame performance in American Psycho. On its release i remember reading it received mixed acclaim; nevertheless, Bale was nearly always commended for performing in the remarkably charismatic role of Patrick Bateman.
The character ranks among contemporary literature's greatest creations and real life serial killers, similar to Hannibal Lector, Leatherface or Zodiac, and back in 2000 a young Bale somehow managed to embody the yup maniac. The character's slickly menacing demeanor, attentive idiosyncrasies, and always brewing revulsion is intuitively mastered in this offbeat satire.
Patrick Bateman is both the definitive New York yuppie and the ultimate sociopath. He is hidden by the Wall Street businessman persona, and his pastime activities are unnoticed by his self-obsessed associates- like himself. He thrives off a colossal maze of jealously, established on distaste for any minor, physical and social hiccup. Little do such men know that they are dehumanizing any merit they once had.
Bret Easton Ellis' original novel contains possibly the most graphic depictions of sex and violence in any novel I have ever read. I read it a while ago from my Library. Appropriately, director Mary Harron places much of the novel's explicit content off-screen, similar to how the book simply lets the reader imagine the vivid nature of the content.
For this reason, American Psycho is faithful to its source, and for a novel which includes such terminal violence there is still a huge amount of wit and charm. This owes to the book's satirical disposition, with its brazen accuracy and jagged humour. It is in many respects an absurdist's take on an already surreal culture; this lends the questionable theme of subjective reality to the protagonist's actions and experiences.
Mary Harron utilizes the satirical facets of the novel, and essentially uses satire as a device of ridiculing yuppie culture. Nevertheless, the component which is best suited is that this image of an alpha-male dominated society, which is directed from a female standpoint, but not an overtly feminist one. More than anything, American Psycho is a critique of ignorance, materialism and self-infatuation.
The cast play it cool throughout the feature, concurrently sinking their teeth into the bitter irony of cultural stereotypes.
For those of you who might be put off by the sardonic title, don't be. This is a twisted and intelligent take on cultural archetypes, with much prominence being placed on whether the viewer deems Patrick Bateman's sociopath alter-ego a manifestation of sub-conscious monotony or that he is genuinely committing the murderous, masochistic acts shown on screen.
Whichever way you look at it, there is no definitive answer, but one thing is for sure, that this cinematic assertion is a strong sentiment of yuppie narcissism. As dark as it may seem, there is no denying the indisputable entertaining quality of a film crammed with meaningful malevolence. This is a film which unsympathetically attacks the business world, implying that dumb people from wealthy backgrounds are groomed for slacker success. These white collar machines are not savvy, nor do they even so much as turn a blind-eye to anyone other than their materialistic statements of self-worth. In a way, this is their only means of clinging onto reality, for they hide behind their denial, with a reputable image of self-worth.
My favourite scenes are numerous including Bale's rivalistic business card scene being better than everyone else's to shooting an old lady after trying to feed the cat to an ATM.
Made me burst the reference to Phil Collins too, so crazy it will make you laugh for all the wrong reasons but you will love it.
The ending left me thinking which was also of note, it lingers, it resides in your mind,
As Michael Douglas once said:
''Greed is Good...''American Psycho is an assault on the senses. A classic. -
MCT:August 10, 2008
ahhhhhhhhhhhhh AMAZINJG SO FUNNY SO GORY!! ahhhh Christian Bale!!!! ahhhhhhhhhhh :]
so yeah, i pretty much love this movie?
the answer is YEEEESS :]
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MCT:August 8, 2008
i loved this movie didnt know what to expect before watching it but can say i wasnt dissapointed at all
christian bale is a great actor and i think is slightly under rated but after the performance in this movie he is moving up my favourite actors list -
MCT:August 7, 2008
One of the strangest films I've seen in awhile. Christian Bale's acting is so freaking amazing, he really creeped me out. There are some funny parts too, which I wasn't expecting.
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MCT:August 7, 2008
Christian Bale is just awesome as Patrick Bateman. This film is just another proof of Bale's versatility as an actor.
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MCT:August 7, 2008Great story let down by yet again a shit ending. After watching this you can see why Christian Bale has risen to stardom. I know this may be controversial, but he could of easily pulled off being the Joker in the Dark Knight, after acting like a psychopath in this.
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MCT:August 6, 2008
Next to Nexsies and the Batmans, this movie is the best Christian Bale movie i have ever seen! His performance is really stunning!
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MCT:August 6, 2008
First off I never read the book...wasn't sure what the movie was about but I found myself laughing throughout most of the movie...would think its more of a dark comedy than anything.
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MCT:August 3, 2008
A story about a psycho murder that didn't get pretty well I think... Actually, Christian Bale did a great job as Patrick Bateman here, he kinda scare me out with his performance in this movie... Reminds me of Anton Chigurgh from 'No Country For Old Men'... But the story, it just a little disappointing... It just feeling weird and confusing, I didn't know where the story will be going, in fact that I watched the cut version of this movie... And the ending, it just didn't clear any problems in this movie, really really weird at all... It was Bale that makes this movie interesting... He played great as a psycho murder in this psycho film...
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MCT:August 3, 2008
Completely creepy and wonderful. Is it wrong that Christian Bale turns me on more than ever playing a complete psycho?!
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MCT:August 2, 2008
My number 2 favorite movie of all time! Great psychological thriller! After reading the book, I'm glad this movie was so well-crafted that it was intense yet tasteful.
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MCT:August 2, 2008
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MCT:August 1, 2008
Pretty good movie. The beginning started off slow. Was really happy after he killed that homeless dude cause then It got interesting. After he killed the dude the title made sense. Can't believe that was Jared Leto, he did not look right. Great movie, saw it two times.
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MCT:August 1, 2008
"I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip." Intense, disturbing and twisted. I couldn't have asked for a better actor to play Patrick Bateman as brilliantly as Christian Bale did. I felt sorry for the sick ass hole at times, he was that bloody good. I simply can't stress it any further, he truly delivers his best performance.
My favourite scene are when Jared Leto is at Bateman's apt. and when Bateman is in the gents with Luis, I couldn't stop laughing though that entire scene.
American Psycho is one of those films which is beautiful in that fucked up way. An intense and disturbing satirical comedy you simply have to see for yourself. -
MCT:July 30, 2008Brutally funny...the business card scene alone is probably enough to make this film reach this rating.
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veronica247posted 419 days ago -
I think you're missing the point of the movie. It IS great and deserves any rave review it gets. It's a dark (very dark) comedy, satirizing 80s yuppie culture: materialism and obsessiveness with one's careers and physique - one's 'standing' in other words.
It is also an intriguing look into the mind of a psychopath. They often try to fit in as much as possible, though in reality they feel no empathy for fellow men and nave no real emotions other than rage and the pleasure derived from killing. Al f this is observable in the character of Patrick Bateman.posted 478 days ago -
everyone keeps talking about how brilliant and sick & twisted this movie is. It's neither. It's a poorly filmed, deeply flawed and cliched run-of-the-mill wannabe slasher/psycho-thriller. Those who claim this to be sick and twisted, weird, depraved, well, you guys need to widen ur viewing. Stop salivating at Hollywood's table scraps.
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The identity of Patrick Bateman is merely a charismatic mask designed to help lure in his unsuspecting prey...
He resorts to obsessive-compulsive behaviour to hide the fact that he's falling apart as he gives into his desires.
Makes you wonder why society tends to trust beautiful people, since they are equally capable of unspeakable evil.posted 499 days ago -
So disturbing, sick, and twisted that it has to be good. When I first saw the movie I couldn't decide whether I hated it or loved it. It was only after quoting it in daily discussions, and then cracking up, that I realized it really is a work of art. Christian Bale is amazing. I am officially disturbed...and liking it.
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weird, disgusting and strange and thankfully not as gross as the book which describes events even a hardened gore fest fan like myself found too much. Brilliant film
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