If Christian Bale isn’t the best method actor in the world right now, I don’t know who is. This guy kills it in everything. We will forgive him for Terminator Salvation; that was purely for economic and commercial reasons. And we will also forgive him for being overshadowed by the awesome and late Heath Ledger as the incomparable Joker in The Dark Knight. No one could have ever competed with that. No one will ever match it!
This is Bale in one of his more early roles and the one that launched his career. American Psycho is a classic and a work of art documenting the pressures and material shallowness of high society. His jealousy and envy and desire fuels his homicidal activity and experimentation with fear and violence. The film has some brilliant scenes, filled with comedy and satire and of course a brilliant portrayal of the psychopathic killer that is Patrick Bateman.