Hammerman Ikon

Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

American Psycho
2000
**
Director: Mary Harron
Cast: Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Reese Witherspoon

This adaptation of Brett Easton Ellis' cult novel is a heavy-handed satire on the vacuous lifestyle of the 1980s. Christian Bale seems dreadfully phony as a cleancut New York yuppie who moonlights as a vicious serial killer, or maybe that's the point of his performance.