American Psycho (2000)
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Critic Consensus: If it falls short of the deadly satire of Bret Easton Ellis's novel, American Psycho still finds its own blend of horror and humor, thanks in part to a fittingly creepy performance by Christian Bale.
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as Patrick Bateman
as Det. Donald Kimball
as Paul Allen
as Craig McDermott
as Courtney Rawlinson
as Jean
as Evelyn Williams
as Luis Carruthers
as Christie
as Timothy Bryce
as David Van Patten
as Elizabeth
as Harold Carnes
as Daisy
as Homeless Man
as Stash
as Vanden
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The slick satire cleverly equates materialism, narcissism, misogyny, and classism with homicide, but you may laugh so loud at the protagonist that you won't be able to hear yourself laughing with him.
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 nearly perfect for what it is, but before we go on, we should ask what that actually amounts to. Can something with so rigid a thesis be a real work of art?
It needs to be seen and appreciated, like a serpent in a glass cage.
Harron's Psycho reps an impressive reclaiming of dubious material.
Conceptually, this savage cartoon ends up as trapped in surfaces as its shallow antihero: it's all dressed up with nowhere to go.
Audience Reviews for American Psycho
Put on a show, Christian.
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It's all soooo predictable. Sunday. Monday. Tuesday. Yada, yada, yada. Everything. Even what people say. Especially what people say. The banality of the very height of civilization creeps through you, becomes you, how can one NOT feel ... worthless? Maniacal? Great fun look at modern obsessions. Loved it.
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Christian Bale couldn't have possibly been more perfect as the narcissistic and deranged yuppie Patrick Bateman in this hilariously sharp commentary on American individualism that will make you laugh real hard at (not with) him and feel disgusted in the same measure.
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American Psycho Quotes
| Patrick Bateman: | Do you like Huey Lewis and the News? |
| Patrick Bateman: | I'm Patrick Bateman. |
| Patrick Bateman: | [Thinking] Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh, my God. It even has a watermark. |
| Patrick Bateman: | Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh, my God. It even has a watermark. |
| Patrick Bateman: | I'm just a happy camper! Rockin' and a-rollin'! |
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