American Psycho was a major let down for me. I thought Christian Bale's performance was over the top and the entire supporting cast was under the bottom. There is no explaination as to what drove Bale character to murdering all those people. There could have been some attempt to tie in the yuppie culture with murderous madness but it was lost by me. The gore looked fake, there was little suspence, and the the jokes fell flat. There were long discertations about 80's pop music (which I think were an attempt to capitolize on Tarintino's style) that were completely meaninglesd and did nothing to advance the film along. This movie was like Natural Born Killers meets Wallstreet but without Oliver Stone there to direct.