Patrick Bateman is killed in the opening scene. I think it's okay for me to spoil that fact since it happens in the first minute of the movie. They could have cut that scene out and it would not have made any real difference with the rest of the events in this movie. The scene seems to only serve a purpose as a feeble attempt to tie this movie to the previous one, which undoubtedly sets a poor tone to the film for anyone who holds the original in high regard.

While this sequel does continue to use its main protagonist as some sort of character study, it's a lot less interesting and walks the path of a generic teen killer on campus type flick with most of its kills happening off camera. As a stand-alone movie, American Psycho 2 is sort of okay and I may have possibly bumped up my rating had it not been for its blatant disrespect to the original movie.