American Psycho (Uncut Killer Collector's Edition) | Christian Bale, Justin Theroux

American Psycho (Uncut Killer Collector's Edition) | Christian Bale, Justin Theroux | Best movie ever!

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	American Psycho (Uncut Killer Collector's Edition) Christian Bale, Justin Theroux Lions Gate, 2005 average customer review:based on 529 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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I CAN'T SEE THIS FILM BECAUSE IS AREA1 ONLY AND I'M FROM AREA 2 (SPAIN - EUROPE) SO IT'S INCREDIBLE THAT.

Best movie ever!

Not only will this movie make you look like you enjoy a movie that requires a high amount of intelligence for you to understand this movie, but it also brings out the fun of watching a serial killer go completely psycho.

Not that I condone such things, but it's pretty fun to watch. Though your girlfriend may get offended because he happens to kill women in this movie. This is best kept to yourself for your enjoyment.

Probably the best movie of Christian Bale's career

I have watched this movie over and over again and couldn't decide what I liked so much about it. In many ways the movie could be called sick if seen through the eyes of someone who views it at face value. However, on closer inspection, the movie is a fantastic satire on yuppies and 80's life in general. Along with this, I believe that this could be the greatest movie in Bale's career. He gives a perfect portrayal of Patrick Bateman in the movie. His detached uncaring attitude is perfect and now I can't think of Patrick Batemen without seeing Christian Bale.

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The movie that made me take notice of Bale

Christan Bale is one of my favorite actors and even though many conisder his work in Empire Of The Sun to be his breakthrough performance for me it's all about American Psycho. American Psycho was clearly one of the best movies released in the year 2000. The film is a thinking person horror movie and has humor and one of the best portyals of a serial killer in recent years. Mary Harron direction is very good and the performance by Christan Bale is top notch. I highly reccomned American Psycho .

It had all the potential in the world, but sadly it just couldn't hold it together...

In all honesty, the first three quarters of `American Psycho' is flawless. I have made my distain for this film obvious to many people but upon reflection even I must admit that the majority of its parts are pure brilliance. And then the fourth quarter comes along and then entire film falls to pieces. Honestly I don't think that Mary Harron understood Bret Easton Ellis' novel. I am a huge fan of the book (I have it listed as one of the top five books everyone should own) and have learnt to embrace its controversial and disturbing overtones because underneath it all `American Psycho' (the novel) is a masterful depiction of humanity at its realist. I know that it has been noted that Ellis' enjoyed this movie adaptation, and maybe that should mean something for me, but I still can't help but gawk at its overly comical ending.

When you read `American Psycho' it gets under your skin; first because of the gross and graphic depictions of murder and mayhem, but ultimately it crawls beneath you because you begin to rationalize with inhumanity. You begin to realize that this man is trapped, as are you and I, in a world that places so much value on the clothes we wear and the toys we own that the value of another's life is tragically degraded. What garners more attention; the murder of a homeless man or a blowout sale at JCPenney? The answer is as obvious as it is heartbreaking.

Mary Harron's adaptation loses that for me. In the end Patrick Bateman is degraded to the depiction of a crazed lunatic as apposed to the ultimate portrayal of a society lost. He's made fun of as apposed to being made fear-inspiring. I vividly remember an image of a crouched over Christian Bale feasting on human flesh and I remember shaking my head in disgust for what Ellis' brilliant work of modern literature had been reduced to.

This has nothing to do with the fantastic acting within this film, which I feel compelled to point out. Christian Bale serves up one of the greatest performances of his career and certainly one of the best of that given year (can you say Oscar snub). He truly gets inside Patrick Bateman, residing within his delusions and creating a truly terrifying as well as understandable character. Chloe Sevigny also delivers as Bateman's secretary Jean. Her scene within his apartment, the scene with the nail gun, is my favorite scene in the film. Reese Witherspoon is great here, if not underused, and Jared Leto has one of the most memorable scenes here (the one scene in the film that really crawled beneath my skin).

You know, while I'm on that subject I might as well stay on that subject. Jared Leto plays Paul Allen, one of Bateman's `victims'. The murder scene is graphic yet done in a mesmerizing satirical way that truly captures what Ellis' novel was all about. Why oh why could the climax of this film have been done in the same splendid manner? I'm baffled because one scene is pure brilliance while the other is C-Grade cheesiness.

I just want to throw my hands up in dire frustration.

In the end I guess I'm forced to give this the thumbs down. It could have been such a fantastic film; maybe even the best of the year. The source material, while completely and understandably controversial and offensive, is one of the greatest and most influential novels to have ever been penned. Mary Harron had a major opportunity here to build on greatness and deliver something the world has never seen. A lot of critics praised this movie; which goes to show that I will never understand this society's idea of a critic. It begins with such masterful potential and it builds on it with such fire only to freefall into stupidity and destroys everything it worked so hard to accomplish. I give it three stars, nothing more and nothing less; which is sad because during its first three quarters I was so sure it would receive nothing but praise from me. Bale is genius, I will give this movie that, but even his brilliance could not save this film from itself.

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