The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate.
Wily and gimmicky adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' novel is pretentiously in love with its tricks and appears as hollow as its protagonists; it is to be feared that this is an accurate interpretation of the author's intentions.
Halliwell*: "A story of callow students indulging in fleshly pleasures; tricked out with a narrative that goes backwards (as sometimes does the film) and other gimmicks, it's like experiencing the day after the night before in a hungover flashback."
Maltin BOMB: "Repellent look at amoral college kids whose sole interests are sex, drugs, and booze...Writer-director Avary...uses a take-no-prisoners approach to Bret Easton Ellis' book, a prequel to American Psycho. Yuccchhh."
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