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Its about 65% great, 10% really great! and 25% kinda bad.

I thought Bateman's character was more insane in the begining and when he was killing people for fun, than when he was actually losing it and becoming more visibly insane. You get more of a sense of how NUTS Bateman is acting cool doing his thing, murdering homeless people, dogs, and women and then just going on with his life normally like the rest of the people he associates with. He's more of a Psycho when he is comparing business cards, and bathing himself thouroughly, the excessive violence is just another part of his insanity but no different than the way he excersises and tans.

The violence is Very comical however, the scenes when he actually does the ritual homocides in his apartment are very well done. Jared Leto's scenes are hilarious and the scenes where he is talking about 80's music while planning how exactly he is going to go through with the vicious torture and killing work marvelously.

I guess the only problems I had with the movie were the explanetory narrative in the begining, and the characters "change" about 3 quarters into it. In the begining I don't think it was necesary to have Batemen say "I am Patrick Bateman" they use his name so many times in the movie, I think the audience would get the point that he is Patrick Bateman, the American Psycho. DUH! And I don't think it was necesary to have him go through this change where it was all "what have I done? Oh my god what have I done" then at the end, the very last line in fact, have him say "this was all pointless, I have never changed, I am still going to inflict my pain on other people"

Otherwise, I enjoyed it. Hell of a lot better than some of the other garbage we've been getting, Keeping the Faith (which is the worst movie I have been forced to watch this year) Return to Me, Where the Money is, Ready to Rumble, Rules of Engagement (how many times has this piece of shit been made?) I could go on....