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Since we were on the subject, we tried to watch American Psycho 2. Man… It certainly takes some notions from American Psycho: references to Pat Bateman, narration, premeditated killings… But it loses everything there. The terrible screenplay is dull and boring from beginning to end, one of those that is so predictable that you don’t even need to predict it, it’s just blatantly set up right off the bat like “these people are going to be killed by this person”. Sadly, the person in question is no Christian bale, instead it is the actress who plays the lame girl on “That 70’s show”, who really isn’t too convincing here, playing a college behavioral sciences student who is killing all the other “top” students in her class to ensure that she gets to be the teachers assistant next semester. Why is she so intent, so um, ruthless? Because when she was a pre-teen, she went to Pat Bateman’s apartment with her babysitter where Pat tied them up and killed her babysitter, luckily, the girl got lose and killed Pat. Yes, you heard me, the American Psycho gets offed by a 12 year old! Once it gets past that silly beginning, it lacks all of the “possible social message” of American Psycho, it lacks all of the mystery as to what is really happening, and the narration in this comes across more just like boring narration, rather than the involving internal dialogue of the first movie. It’s also possibly the first movie about a serial killer that has absolutely zero gore scenes.

Basically American Psycho 2 is just a lame after-school special about a serial killer that invoked the AP name to attempt to get some cred which, as I like to point out, causes its “credibility of mediocrity” to sink even lower then it normally would be. It has a twist at the end (yeah..) that would seem a little more twisty if it wasn’t so blatently set-up. This movie has absolutely nothing to recommended it. It’s dull, uninteresting, not violent, meaningless and not even shot in an enticing fashion. It would have the one saving grace of casting Bill Shatner as the Professor, but he is totally wasted in this lame film.