An industry most people despise: check
Unsympathetic characters: check
Motivation is competition and envy: check
Characters fueled by drug abuse and meaningless sex: check
Main character rationalizes murder as a means to and end: check
Now, if there was just a way they could've worked Huey Lewis and the News in there.
Agree they're nearly identical.
shareyea having seen the film, it was very American Psycho, only...British and in the 90s instead of the 80s. No Huey Lewis and the News, but they had the Prodigy's Smack My B_tch Up and Climbatize, and Radiohead's Karma Police, Sneaker Pimps's 6 Underground, Oasis, hints to the Spice Girls, dj music culture, and all the obvious british wave of the 90s.
shareKYF tends towards this direction, but it does not come close. john niven really hard to tries to become something between irvine welsh and Bret Easton Ellis, but fails miserable at doing so.
All the scenes with the cop are just pure plagiarism.
The movie feels like it was made by a student, a young fan of Ellis who has nothing to say and try to play with American Psycho original structure. "Oh yeah, maybe in this, Jean would be also a psycho, and her & "Patrick" would try to frame "Willem Dafoe" ! It's perfect, because now there is gonna be a sextape scene like in American Psycho, but it will have more narrative meaning !".
That's pathetic.
This movie has nothing to say, and can't even steal correctly what was beautiful in American Psycho : the heart. The deep contradiction in Patrick that made the character so relevant and strangely endearing. Here, Hoult is just a stupid prick. Probably like the director and the writer of this huge *beep*
very well put.
shareThis was a near carbon-copy.
Kind of crazy how much a rip-off it was.
Yeah, it had an American Psycho vibe. Only it was the 90's and he was British. :)
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