Fight Club Reviews

What a suprise! It's not what you think!

Fight Club is a brash slap in the face of consumerism and the working dead. It questions reality. It is strikingly thought provoking and visually stimulating. The direction is incredibly brilliant. Director David Fincher (Aliens, Se7en and The Game) is at his finest here warping both space and time, dropping in things here and there to make things clear. Edward Norton is excellent as Jack, the narrator of the movie. He is a nerdy insomniac who catalog shops at Ikea and has a going nowhere job. Brad Pitt is dynamic as Tyler Durden, an anarchistic man who lives in a run-down abandoned house and makes and sells soap for a living. Helen Bonham Carter is also great as Marla Singer, the manic-depressive chain-smoking woman in both their lives. Her role is critical and she plays it well.

There has been some controversy about the violence in this film but it is not gratuitous violence, it is part of the story and serves it well. It is much less than what you would see in your average Hollywood blockbuster. This is actually an insightful film and in many ways similar to American Beauty, although this film is much more in your face about it's message. If you are squeamish, you may not want to see it. There are some very painful bloody scenes, but if you can stomach it, then check it out. There is also a huge twist in this film that almost rivals the twist at the end of The Sixth Sense. And I must admit, it is the twist in this film that made me really love it. The best audience for this film is men in their 20's or 30's, but anyone that can appreciate film as a modern art should like it. One of the best films of 1999.

Trust me this film is total nonsence, pointless

no meaning,Nonsense

A few people beating each other, stupid story and total meaningless. I used to train martial art but this film doesn’t have any real life story. Total waste of time

RUBBISH

WHAT A LOAD OF RUBBISH, turned it off after 30 minutes, couldn't take anymore

Fight Club Review

Chuck Palahniuk’s bestseller is boldly bought to the screen by Se7en director David Fincher. The result is a shocking, proactive and highly amusing macho fantasy, as insomniac loser Edward Norton teams up with seditionary soap salesman Brad Pitt to form a no-holds barred fight club as an outlet for the directionless aggression.

The growing cult's Project Mayhem takes supervised vandalism into the outside world with a series of ludicrous acts of sabotage. Fincher’s satirical fable brilliantly plays with cinematic conventions and climaxes with a shock twist. This charged slice of nihilistic angst is a mesmerising ride through the 1990s male psyche, aided by elaborate production design, unconventional editing, startling images and superlative from the leads.

“How much do you know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight?” - Tyler Durden

Load of stylised tosh

I absolutely hated this film. Recommended by a friend who claimed it was one of the best movies she had ever seen in her life it certainly did not live upto the high expectations i had about it. I thought it was a boxing movie or a marshal arts movie but it was certainly not. It is a movie that takes itself far too seriously, believing itself to be a social commatator but its just a joke. Pitt is terrible as usual, Norton is pathetic, Bonham-Carter is inconsolably bad! Not my cup of tea at all-the usual suspects did this genre(the twisty genre!!) much better. The bottom line is that a movie that takes itself to seriously is a disaster, as this is.

All my friends raved about this film, but I am not convinced that there is enough of a storyline to demand a better rating. The film also starts very slowly.

Pardon?

No clue what was going on, the main character's infernal mumbling over the actual film made it so I really didn't care.

slop club

the worst film i have seen in years ,utter rubbish

Under-rated classic - particularly for Brad Pitt fans

When Fight Club came out, I was put off by the trailers, which seemed to glorify violence and didn't hold out for the worthy plot of e.g. Rocky.

I saw it recently for the first time and was engrossed. And the ending was fabulous - without giving anything away.

There is violence, and the trailer's basic premise of a bunch of guys meeting to beat each other up is true. But there's a love angle, a great one-two between Norton and Pitt, and the great ending.

Also some nice DVD commentaries which are worth hearing.

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I don't see what all the fuss is about

definitely a mans film, obvious from the start where the story line was going in terms of being somewhat unreal, storyline pandering to mans natural competitiveness in the form of fist fighting. Predictable support by the awful Helena Bonham Carter in her usual 'crazy' role. Not even a fit looking Brad Pitt could make me sit through 1/2 hour of this nonsense.