American Psycho II: All American Girl (2002)

That was an excellent one.

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

At the age of 12, Rachael (Mila Kunis) is held captive by Patrick Bateman along with her babysitter. She manages to escape leaving behind a dead Patrick. She doesn't tell anybody and becomes fascinated with psycho killers. Six years later, she's an ace student eagerly attending professor Starkman (William Shatner)'s class. She is pushing to be the new class assistant and on the fast track to the FBI. But the school administrator doesn't let freshmen apply. That's before she was murdered by a hooded killer. Brian (Robin Dunne) is a scheming rich boy with poor grades who is underhandedly pushing for the same job.Mary Harron is gone. Of course, Christian Bale is nowhere to be seen. That's not all there is to the changes. The tone is all light weight. It feels like Nancy Drew takes up killing. That music just makes everything worst. So one must abandon the original to see this movie for what it is and not what one wants it to be. A serial killing Nancy Drew is not the worst concept. I wish it was done better and without that annoying music. About halfway thru, there is a nice little reveal. It changes the tone temporarily to something better but it changes back. That music and the comical tone just makes this movie feel very cheesy. Even the final reveal which is nice cannot save this.

American Psycho II (2002) BOMB (out of 4) In name only sequel to the cult film has Mila Kunis playing Rachel, a young woman who as a child killed the serial killer Patrick Bateman. Flash forward several years and Rachel is in college trying to become a FBI agent but her goal of becoming her professor's (William Shatner) assistant means that she will have to turn into a killer to knock off the competition. American PSYCHO II is just a poor cash-in on the cult success of the first film but I really don't knock it for that. As a fan of horror films I've come accustom to cheap knock-offs but the problem with this film is that it's just not nearly as clever as it thinks it is. The biggest problem for me is the entire tone of the picture, which seems to be wanting to wink at the viewer. Rachel is shown as just a sweet girl next door type and we get some of the worst narration that you're ever going to hear throughout the movie as we move from one killing to the next. This narration really was some of the worst that I've ever heard and it was quite annoying. Even worse is the music score, which also tries to wink at the viewer with its silly light touch. I'm really not sure what the producers were trying to do with this picture but it's certainly a complete failure from the opening scene to the last. Was this meant to be a spoof of horror pictures? Perhaps but it's certainly not funny and as I said before, the picture isn't nearly as clever as it thinks. Even worse is the fact that Kunis is just downright awful here and it's easy to see why she doesn't want anyone to bring the picture up. Everything from her line delivery to the way she shows any sort of emotion is just bad. Yes she's hot but that's certainly not enough to carry the picture. Shatner is pretty much just cashing a paycheck and adds very little to the picture. Even as a horror film this thing doesn't work as the death scenes are all forgettable and there's just not enough sleaze to make it entertaining.

It's fascinating. I never thought I would actually find a movie so blatantly terrible that I cannot stand even a single scene of it.Firstly: I am a big fan of the original American Psycho - an aspect that makes just how bad this movie is even worse, like a good sequel should of course.It is clear this movie has no idea what it is trying to be.Within the first 2 minutes it manages to portrays a complete disregard for the very point of the previous film - denouncing the psychological concept entirely and opting out of the yuppie satire for poorly exaggerated college melodrama alongside of course a charismatic, mysteriously nonsensical protagonist for an infuriatingly nonsensical protagonist.Attempting to disassociate this film in order to see how it stands alone from the prior would at the very best result in being deemed hilariously bad - or perhaps a very bad attempt at being quirky. I don't mean to overuse the word 'infuriating'; however it is the first things that comes to my mind when considering every aspect of this film.Now unless the characters of this film are failed attempts at satire, they make no sense whatsoever. Especially the protagonist who is so blind that all her motivations and goals seem completely unbelievable and impossible.And the music... by god the music... Where the first film had catchy upbeat tunes to contrast the dark imagery and portray a sense of black humour. The music in American Psycho 2 seems to do the Teen dramedy thing in which it blatantly portrays the characters feelings - in this case however much like the characters, script and direction makes no sense whatsoever.I cannot think of any constructive criticism whatsoever aside from renaming it to not tarnish the name of the original.For those of you who have seen the film: - Imagine the perpetual inner monologue/narrations was cut out entirely. The film would make no sense whatsoever.If I could I would give this film half 0.5/10. The half a point is for Shatner. Poor Shatner...

For some reason I thought this video sequel to the 2000 film came out fairly recently, and I was a little worried that Mila Kunis, who starred, was being a little careless with her career choices. That it came out in 2002 makes a lot more sense. It also explains why she's so much worse in this than she has been in any film she's appeared in in the past couple of years. She's grown nicely as an actress. She's still hot here, which is more or less the only worthy thing about this film (there's also another really attractive woman in the cast, Lindy Booth). This film may in fact have the very worst script I've ever seen in a movie. As one might guess, this film has little to do with the original American Psycho. Mila Kunis' character apparently killed Patrick Bateman when she was a child. She liked it, and is really good at murder herself. Her life plans, though, have her become an FBI agent and an expert on serial killers, Dexter style, so she can catch the bad guys. To achieve her dream, she must go through a professor at her college, William Shatner, who has a reputation for training FBI agents. There are three other students, however, who may beat her for Shatner's T.A. job for the next year, and she decides to take them out. The thing with this film is that Kunis is a terribly bad murderer. She leaves evidence and witnesses everywhere. And even when she decides to take out the witnesses, the audience is left wondering how a 100 lb gal can overpower her victims so easily. So the movie requires that everyone around her be even dumber than she is, which leaves the film populated by subhuman morons, perhaps even dumber than the screenwriters who created them. You wonder why the cops aren't at all investigating any of the disappearances Kunis causes, but then we meet them and they can only barely form coherent thoughts (one of them actually tries to give his partner, who is piloting their cop car, a speeding ticket while he is driving). The writers, thank God, have barely worked since they wrote this film.