#8: American Psycho (2000)

Christian Bale has enormous range as an actor.  Patrick Bateman is like a bipolar version of Bale's Bruce Wayne.  This movie is black comedy at its best.  It really isn't about serial killing.  Bateman is a metaphor for our capitalistic society.  He's a bullshit artist.  He appears to have it all but he's empty inside.  It's all a facade.  And he's the most dangerous thing out there.  I love the scene with the homeless guy and when he picks up the prostitute in a dark alley.  They trust him because he's supposed to be the benevolent one - "job creator", the one from whom economics is supposed to "trickle down."  But he's a killer who only cares about himself.  The '80s references are hilarious.  I especially like his crazed sermons on the relevance of random pop music icons.  Ingenious way of showing his utter insanity and vapidness.