David Parkinson Radio Times Aug 31, 2025 2/5

The excesses are compounded by an insistence on strewing the action with as much exposed flesh and spurting gore as possible. Shatner is sportingly self-deprecating, but this is strictly for exploitation fiends.

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Film4 Staff Film4 Apr 4, 2025

This inoffensive and relatively tame so-called sequel is nothing more than formulaic campus frolics with a light twist and just enough surprises to keep the viewer's attention.

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Norman Wilner Toronto Star Apr 1, 2025

Having survived the infamous Patrick Bateman, a plucky co-ed becomes a slayer in her own right in this entirely unnecessary sequel.

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David Bleiler & David Gorgos Philadelphia Daily News Apr 1, 2025

A cheap sequel that has about as much in common with the satiric first film as "Cinderella 2" does.

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Stephen Dalton The Times (UK) Apr 1, 2025

Overcooked cash-in slasher sequel adds a female serial killer but misses the point.

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Rob Hunter Slashfilm Mar 31, 2025

It's clearly just a poorly written film about a "movie" sociopath – trading believability and credibility for "fun" – but the forced connection to American Psycho highlights its own lack of personality, wit, and relevance.

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Chris Alexander ComingSoon.net Mar 31, 2025

American Psycho 2 — or rather, The Girl Who Wouldn’t Die — is a strange, entertaining and surprising little film. Bloody and funny and twisty and turny and Kunis pulls it all off.

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Nathan Rabin AV Club Mar 31, 2025

Anonymously directed by Morgan J. Freeman, Psycho 2 trades its predecessor's sharp social satire for a mixture of dumbed-down irony, groan-inducing black comedy, and gratuitous bloodshed.

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TV Guide Staff TV Guide Mar 31, 2025

In the end this campy chiller crucifies the American success ethic with more vigor than elan.

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Scott Brown Entertainment Weekly Mar 31, 2025 D-

Unscary and unfunny.

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Paul Lê Bloody Disgusting Jul 21, 2023 3/5

As a continuation, American Psycho 2 fails to live up to its beloved predecessor. [...] But as a campy and quirky “good for her” comedy with a slasher element? That is something this disparaged sequel has going for itself.

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Rob Gonsalves Rob's Movie Vault May 27, 2006 F

The movie is neither frightening nor funny; in fact, it's extremely boring.

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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Jul 18, 2005 2/5

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Stefan Birgir Stefans sbs.is Jul 10, 2004 2/4

Oddly amusing.

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Popmatters Staff PopMatters Mar 30, 2003

Ignoring Morgan J. Freeman’s bad direction and Karen Craig and Alex Sanger’s clichéd script, the absolute worst part is that I don’t think anyone involved in the production had actually seen American Psycho.

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David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Feb 24, 2003 0.5/4

William Shatner, as a pompous professor, is the sole bright spot.

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Paul Matwychuk Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) Oct 10, 2002

One of the oddest and most inexplicable sequels in movie history.

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Caffeinated Clint Moviehole Oct 2, 2002 3/5

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Walter Chaw Film Freak Central Sep 17, 2002 1/4

The first mistake, I suspect, is casting Shatner as a legendary professor and Kunis as a brilliant college student--where's Pauly Shore as the rocket scientist?

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Pete Croatto Filmcritic.com Jul 19, 2002 1.5/5

It's another stale, kill-by-numbers flick, complete with blade-thin characters and terrible, pun-laden dialogue.

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