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Niveris

I have to return some video tapes.

11 years 1 month ago

Chikamaharry

I love the first 45 minutes, when Christian Bale gets to flaunt his brilliant acting. After that I feel like the movie doesn't hold up.

10 years 5 months ago

The film's director, Mary Harron, told Black Book magazine that Bale initially struggled with the role of Patrick Bateman until he noticed Cruise's "intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes" during a David Letterman interview...

4 years 10 months ago

Scratch47

As everyone's remarked, Christian Bale knocks it out of the park. Watching his Bat-work prior to this, I can't help but draw comparisons to Bruce Wayne as socialite. Towards the end, he's almost confused by his numb response to his empty life. The film admirably simmers along a twisted undercurrent of what happens when the elite try and compose themselves out of the constituent parts of the vapid cultural wreckage, and how they destroy themselves once they hit the top, equally typically. Hearing the constant name-dropping made me feel like I was in a pristine, sterile meta-maze, and the grue that ended up getting all over the walls was highly welcome. Not multi-dimensional enough to warrant a recommendation, but still worth a look, and in no way comparable to any kind of slasher flick, despite appearances.
(And it figures that Bateman wouldn't like early Genesis either.)

11 years 6 months ago

RandomBeast

Breathtaking portrait of a serial narcissist.

14 years 5 months ago

fonz

Christian Bale's finest performance? A great adaptation of a book that I mostly loathed reading? Much like Fight Club, this is one that a lot of people misunderstand and love for the wrong reasons.

8 years 3 months ago

Ezio

I felt quite uncomfortable watching this... A great movie anyways.

12 years 6 months ago

operationdropkick

Fantastic movie.
Christian Bale does a great portrayal of Bateman and his acting is really fantastic.
Really surprised just how much the script stuck to the book aswell, the dialogue is identical in most places, nice to see a film do that.
Not so keen on the changed order of events though and the slight setting changes from the book but I can understand why they did it as it wouldn't have worked as well as a film if they hadn't.
Even after that criticism though, it's one of the best movie adaptations of a book I've seen.

12 years 6 months ago

frontierpsychiatrist

A laugh riot.

12 years 6 months ago

NicholasDVD

"Hey Paul, Do you like Huey Lewis and the news?"

12 years 11 months ago

fjcaetano

This is one of those typical "feel bad movies". I watched it with great expectations and it did answered them.

Notes for the stunning performance of Christian Bale. It's pretty obvious how the character is acting all the time, the forced voice, the mannerisms. That's not easy to do.

As I didn't read the book, I can't compare, but I love the end which you just don't know what just happened.

8.5/10

13 years 1 month ago

Duke of Omnium

They said the novel couldn't be filmed ... and they were right. This movie gets praise way beyond its merits.

11 years ago

rainy

This is very good.

11 years 4 months ago

ericaf

Although it made me a little squeamish at times, I fully appreciated the film's purpose in its satirical approach. What drives the film's success is its social commentary and thematic intent... Not the acting (or rather, the actor). Bale did a fine job, though.

11 years 11 months ago

Siskoid

Iconic business card scene. I'm sure other things happen.

5 months 2 weeks ago