Quartile rating: 4.5/10 · 1 rating
Rachel is a criminology student hoping to land a position as a teacher's assistant for professor Robert Starkman. She's sure this position will pave the way to an FBI career, and she's willing to do anything to obtain it -- including killing her classmates. The school psychiatrist, Dr. Daniels, becomes aware that Rachel is insane, but Rachel is skilled at her dangerous game of death and identity theft.
American Psycho II is a notoriously cynical cash-in sequel, originally conceived as an unrelated script that was hastily retrofitted with a tenuous connection to the 2000 original. The plot is formulaic and thin — a campus serial killer picking off rivals for a TA position — with little of the satire or psychological depth that made the first film memorable. Acting is mediocre across the board, with Mila Kunis doing what she can with a weak script; William Shatner is present but underused. Cinematography is flat and unremarkable, typical of low-budget direct-to-video productions of the era. Novelty is genuinely poor: far from being distinctive, this film is derivative and opportunistic, recycling the American Psycho name while offering nothing singular in concept or execution. The ending resolves without surprise or cleverness, consistent with the rest of the film's by-the-numbers approach.