American Psycho 2 (2002)
aka: American Psycho II - All American Girl 

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directed by : Morgan J.Freeman
featuring : Mila Kunis - William Shatner - Robin Dunne
running time : 1 hour 28 minutes 
The exploits of yuppie serial killer Patrick Bateman continue to thrive despite his timely death in American Psycho 2, which features Rachel Newman Mila Kunis as the sole escapee of Bateman's murderous inclinations. Since her brush with death, Rachel has found herself unhealthily obsessed with serial killers and their psyches. When former FBI agent Robert Starkman (William Shatner), who handled the original Bateman case, takes a job teaching one of Rachel's college classes, he hopes it will provide him with a needed break from the stress of murder and violent crime cases. Unfortunately, Rachel becomes dangerously infatuated with Professor Starkman, and decides that she'll be his teaching assistant, no matter what the cost. Now Rachel is the serial killer, murdering anyone she thinks is in the way of her potential job. Someone must catch on to her secret before she kills again. Morgan J.Freeman (Hurricane Streets) directs this addendum to the controversial story based on Bret Easton Ellis' controversial novel.

While American Psycho had moments of stylish humor and featured a pitch-perfect performance from Christian Bale, it suffered from occasional incoherence and thematic strands that failed to resonate with the film's overall tone. American Psycho II: All American Girl fixes those problems at the expense of ambition. Gone is the sly, subversive satire derived from Bret Easton Ellis' source novel. Gone also are the mockingly accurate soundtrack and the outstanding supporting cast that included Reese Witherspoon, Willem Dafoe, and Jared Leto. Instead, American Psycho II gives us Robin Dunne, Geraint Wyn Davies, and Shatner. Worst of all, Bale has been replaced by television sitcom actress Mila Kunis who wanders through the film as though she's doing a screen test for a remake of Heathers. What few good moments the film has comes from the reliable Shatner, here nicely underplaying against the manufactured intensity of his co-stars. While the actors are forced to pretend otherwise, the audience should be several scenes ahead the ploddingly linear screenplay, including the trite coda with the not-so-surprising surprise. Comedies about serial killers are nothing new the Broadway play version of Arsenic And Old Lace with Boris Karloff debuted in 1941 and that lack of newness is a major problem for American Psycho II. If you're looking for a witty, urbane serial-killer movie, try the sophistication of 1949's Kind Hearts And Coronets, or for good laughs and a bit more suspense, the 1996 postmodern classic Scream.