It's about as violent as any R-rated movie in America. But it's a lot more boring.

It's to Bale's credit that this yuppie anomaly remains semi-watchable as the rest of the film slips into a comatose surreality.

A smug, monotonal, buttoned-down rendering of the one-gag novel by Bret Easton Ellis, it wastes the acting talent of Christian Bale and gives post-modern irony a bad name.

"American Psycho" is a film to be admired for burning gruesome imagery deep into our psyche.