Day 132: American Psycho

Directed By- Mary Harron

Written By- Mary Harron; Based on the book by- Bret Easton Ellis

Starring- Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Josh Lucas, Reese Witherspoon

Critics Review- "The best monster movie in years."- Michael Thomson "BBC"

Rotten Tomatoes Rating- Critics-67% Audience- 83%

Out of a possible 5 stars- 5 stars

My Review-

I think I found one of my new favorite movies. I had only heard, but not seen this movie until today. I can see why Bale has possibly gone down as one of the best villains of all time 5 possibly scariest in my opinion. This was possibly one of the strangest movies I have seen with Bale and after watching this one I can see that he is one of the best actors out there, he already won an Oscar for the Fighter, and I believe that he should get the change to be nominated for another Oscar, even though this movie is about 12 years old, you can see how versatile he is as an actor and the different parts he choose he just makes the movie stand out more, like with this one and the Batman series with Nolan. This movie had some confusing parts, but also some really brutal parts as well, it was shocking at times to see Bale in this kind of a role because you never see him in a role like this before, well I have never seen him in one like this but I enjoyed it because I got to see a different side of his acting. I was just as surprised with the movie, and I would like to read the book now to see how good the book is because the movie was really good as well. Also I can see why it as the following that it has the characters are not hard to follow, the acting is really good, as some actors I did not expect to be in this movie. And Bale has created an character for people to remember for years to come and that character is Patrick Bateman. Even though a direct to DVD sequel did come out which had nothing to do with the original movie, which sucks for these times of films, because it just kind of ruins it. This is another movie that I would like to own on Blu Ray, and watch again another time to try to understand the movie a little bit more, or watch just for the acting by Bale and the others actors. Especially to see how I can try to understand the ending because I was a little bit confused. If you have not seen this movie watch it for how well this movie is acted and so you can see why it gained the following that it did. The critic was right in way, Bale's character can be considered a monster.