American Psycho Reviews
Big Picture Big Sound
The real shame about Psycho is that there are glimmers of the very smart satire that could've been.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
When not bludgeoning a business rival with an ax, well-heeled killer Patrick Bateman bludgeons the audience with the film's messages.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/4
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
The film left me with an empty feeling...
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| Original Score: C
SPLICEDWire
As it nears a conclusion, the picture becomes almost as empty as the title character.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Movie Metropolis
...a dark satire, a black comedy, and a slick slasher rolled into one.
| Original Score: 6/10
rec.arts.movies.reviews
I wish I hadn't seen it.
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| Original Score: 2/10
Top CriticAs the antihero himself sneers at the bloody finale, 'This confession has meant nothing.' It's a form of poetic justice that American Psycho would be impaled on its own point.
Well-filmed, well-acted and certainly riveting, American Psycho nonetheless is a movie without heart about a man without heart.
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| Original Score: 2/4
All we get is a second-rate nightmare.
San Francisco Examiner
Harron can't find an angle, therefore a reason, to have made a film of this book -- beyond the simple fact that she could.
Much of American Psycho feels like déjà vu.
It's hard to summon up enthusiasm for a performance so rooted in bloody banality. I mean, as Patrick, Bale's most emotionally pressing dilemma is: Chainsaw or butcher knife?
American Psycho is seamless in its inability to engage emotionally, message or no message.
Reel Film Reviews
Despite a game performance from Christian Bale, American Psycho never quite achieves lift-off.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Screen It!
Those looking for an exploration of what makes an American Psycho tick are bound to be disappointed, as are those looking for a good scary film.
Matinee Magazine
Decidedly out of date.
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| Original Score: short
DustinPutman.com
Are you, more or less, setting yourself up for disappointment if you go to see a film adaptation of one of the most powerfully written novels you can recall reading?
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| Original Score: 2/4
Sight and Sound
The problem, again, is the book, an insurmountable obstacle. If Harron and Turner had set out to make a real movie on these themes, they would never have started from a script like this.
