American Psycho 2: All-American Girl (2002)
- written July 2002
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Rachel survived Patrick Bateman’s killing spree by killing him. Years later she isn’t scarred that much by the experience...only enough that she feels she has the right to kill anyone who gets in her way. She wants to be a Professor’s teaching assistant, knowing this position can lead to the FBI. And she won’t let anyone stand in her way, including the professor!
Overall: I have so many problems with this movie, I’m not sure where to start!!!!! Firstly the film is more of a sequel to "Getting In" than "American Psycho." The girl isn’t anything like Bateman so his brief presence is only to ensure suckers, like me, rent the movie. You could have renamed the killer she meets with and titled it something else and I probably would never have seen this. I saw it to see what damage they’d do to the brilliant first film. They portray Bateman as a psycho killer who wants to take time and enjoy killing his victims and so he leaves a girl to watch as he slices open the babysitter. And he didn’t enjoy the actual killing as much as what their absence from living now meant to him! Secondly his attacks were vicious and violent...not as tame and methodical as the opening portrays. Bateman never wore his aqua blue face mask either...probably would have felt that and the air at night didn’t go together...and never wore a robe while murdering...he wore a suit and sometime a transparent parka over it. The film completely mis-portrays Bateman. Then the film is like a copy of "Legally Blonde" with Rachel's attitude towards life and school and mixes it with the motives for success in "Getting In." Bateman wondered if he was human and struggled with why he did things...this girl knows what she is doing and knows why she is doing it. William Shatner as a professor is a joke but as a former FBI agent...what was he investigating? Cheeseburger Killers? The Professor’s answering machines picks up before the phone stops ringing, the waiters don’t “card” college freshmen in fancy restaurants, and the police car chase passes the same 50MPH sign a few times. The ending is a blatant rip-off of "Diary of a Serial Killer" with the book-signing - with the author remaining alive for the same reasons in both films. The “alternate opening” at least gave Bateman a chance to speak and got you a teeny bit closer to the original but then you get a better focus on the stupid blue mask and you realize the corniness again. I will agree the deleted scenes needed to be deleted because they were unnecessary but so was much of the film. Comparison: Clueless meets The Curve |
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