Do you rate it highly?
I think it remains, to this day, alongside The Machinist and The Fighter, one of Bale's top three performances. Bale is one of the better mainstream actors out there, today. That little monologue on Huey Lewis' music before he axes Jared Leto, such a brilliant scene. Have you read the book? It's one of those rare cases of an adaptation that really doesn't suffer too much alongside the book. Interesting, that the director, Mary Harron (Canadian!) has pretty much vanished after such a promising start to her career, with I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho, and The Notorious Bettie Page all being pretty good films, and she has done almost nothing on the silver screen since.