Starring: Christian Bale, Reese Witherspoon, Willem Dafoe
Directed: Mary Hallon
What is it about?
Christian Bale stars as Patrick Bateman, a wealthy business man in 1987 Wall Street. He has a good job at his father company, a limo, a girlfriend, a hot mistress, strong opinions about music and nice business cards (although not as nice as those of some of his co-workers). He's also an emotionless killer who is getting worse.
What did I think?
Literally thousands of movies to choose to start with and me being me I was too indecisive to pick one. So I let 'Max' on Netflix pick one for me. This is one of those films which I've been aware of for a long time but never got around to watching. I enjoyed deconstruction of 80s Wall Street which particularly resonates a lot in today's austere times. I enjoyed the musical choices and particularly Bateman's musical rants which usually preceded a brutal killing.
The death scenes were fairly brutal and graphic in places but this never felt like a slasher thriller. It is a story about one man's descent into madness and leaves you wondering at the end just how much of what you'd seen was supposed to have taken place and how much was in his head. I've not seen much pre-Batman Christian Bale and I thought he was very good in this. I'm not a massive fan of Willem Dafoe, to be honest, and I'm not sure why. Either way he was ok as the Detective who seems to suspect that there's more to Bateman than meets the eye. I always like Reese Witherspoon and Chloë Sevigny was good as the innocent secretary with the crush on her killer boss. I enjoyed it.
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