

“It seems that Vaughn struggled to get into the character during his first few scenes with Heche but then gradually steeped himself within Norman’s psyche. It serves no purpose other than just to be something that is there. They all had the best intentions and yet the end result was nothing short of a mess. “The film had a talented director and an incredibly talented case.

Van Sant’s much-maligned folly ultimately belongs not in a movie theater or a drive-in but in a fancy pants conceptual art museum in a wing devoted to pretentious experiments in pointlessness.” AV Club “The problem with Gus Van Sant’s Psycho is that it’s a dry academic exercise that never feels like anything other than, well, a dry academic exercise.
