One Word Movie

Bateman Begins

There is a lovely bit in this movie when Christian Bale (or Patrick Bateman as I like to call him) evacuates a whole Wayne mansion-full of party guests with a big American Psycho sneer. You really expect him to follow it by chopping a load of them up, then shouting at the Chinese woman in the dry cleaning when she can't get the blood out of the sheets.

I was worried that, at 140 minutes, this film was going to be too long. Because if it were shit, it would be brutally boring and you'd chew your own arm off to escape. But you leave feeling satisfied because there's time for story and character development - it's not just rubbish computer-generated special-effects and nobber wise-cracks calibrated to appeal to 12-year olds. The only really bad thing is that the dialogue’s a bit shit sometimes, there’s the sort of lines in it that the lads in Oasis would think are really really clever.

But essentially the supervillain in this movie tries to destroy Gotham city using "weaponised hallucinogens" to give the populous a really evil trip; I left satisfied. This film is good. I’m a bit worried about the sequel though – will they put genetically modified weed into everyone’s Shredded Wheat to make everyone unforgivably monged?

posted by Chairman Peyote @ 2:23 PM