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"American
Psycho"
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By Mira Harber
"American
Psycho" is without a doubt one of the worst movies I've ever seen. It's
almost as bad as Showgirls, but at least that movie made you laugh. If
you missed this film when it first came out, bravo, good thinking!! I was
attacked by a strong case of AIR CONDITIONING with a movie, on this hot,
first weekend of summer. The movie that came with the air conditioning
happened to be American Psycho - I think I would have been better off staying
home and sweating.
Our hero?
is a 1980's souless, master-of-the-universe, uber-yuppie type, slickly
played by Christian Bale. We never come to empathize with him, or ever
really understand him. The only thing is we do understand is that he's
out of control. More to the point, we never care about him, we're not emotionally
involved with him. He's a freak, and who cares? This is the basic problem
with this film - not that he's a misogynistic nutcase, and all his neanderthal
Wall Street friends are emotionally stunted adolescents - we just
don't care. When a movie about a psychopathic, serial killer, who keeps
heads in the freezer, kills over-achieving co-workers and we still manage
to be bored - well, this is bad. I couldn't wait for the movie to
be over, not because of all the bad press, and the gore of all that senseless
killing - actually, there wasn't TOO much blood. I just wanted the
movie to end. I was actually hoping I would come to care about the
killer, and finally make some sense out of the senseless. I guess that's
the profound(?) point of this movie - sometimes there is no explanation
for the evil men do. Haven't we seen and heard all this before? Whatever
you do this summer to avoid the heat, make sure it doesn't involve American
Psycho - there's no excuse to waste two hours of your life like that. |
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