AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000) - ♦♦♦♦♦

Directed by - Mary Harron

Written by - Mary Harron, Guinevere Turner (based on a novel by Bret Easton Ellis)

Starring - Christian Bale

"A New York investement banking executive comes to term with his psychotically violent alter ego. Sheer slasher horror meets dark comedy in vivid subject of delightful – if such a word can be used in a film like American Psycho – eccentricity.

Mary Harron makes the film a cool, trendy and modern subjective vision driven by an already great subject from the celebrated Brest Easton Ellis novel that drew inspiration from the generation of yuppies and the new wealthy class. The dialogue is exciting, the cinematography is polished in a sinister sheen, and the ending rewardingly enigmatic feels like a righteous payoff to a nightmarish vision that enthrals the viewer with magnetic unpredictability that echoes the ‘psycho’ of its title.

Speaking of psycho and anything psychotic, Christian Bale is tremendous and iconic as the leading maniac, exhuming charisma and giving the figure of the killer and original layer of charm, sex and danger."

Horror, USA