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Starring Christian Bale, et al. Released to DVD on September 5, 2000. <![[Photo]](/photos/americanpsycho.jpg) P>Based on Bret Easton Ellis' book of the same name, American Psycho's production had a very similar feel to the David Fincher visual spectacular, Fight Club. Both films were adapted from popular underground novels about disenfranchised white-collar males who were striking out at the world in an effort to keep their sanity. And sadly, both films suffer from tremendously out-of-place, twist endings. Christian Bale stars in American Psycho as Patrick Bateman, a Wall Street businessman hired to work in his father's company. Well groomed, with a large bankroll, Patrick enjoys the finer things in life: good music, Armani suits, dinners at the trendiest restaurants and killing people with chainsaws. American Psycho is Patrick's story. The most frustrating thing about American Psycho wasn't the horrifyingly poor ending, but the fact that prior to that point, this film stood out in my mind as being one hell of an entertaining statement about corporate America and American society as a whole, a statement that was effectively ruined in the last 10 minutes of director Mary Harron's movie.
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