You can call [it] irresponsible. Or you can call it the only essential Hollywood film of 1999.
Fight Club (1999)
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Reviews Counted:146
Fresh:117
Rotten:29
Average Rating:7.2/10
Consensus: Solid acting, amazing direction, and elaborate production design make Fight Club a wild ride.
Runtime: 2 hrs 19 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: FIGHT CLUB is narrated by a lonely, unfulfilled young man (Edward Norton) who finds his only comfort in feigning terminal illness and attending disease support groups. Hopping from group to group,... FIGHT CLUB is narrated by a lonely, unfulfilled young man (Edward Norton) who finds his only comfort in feigning terminal illness and attending disease support groups. Hopping from group to group, he encounters another pretender, or "tourist," the morose Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), who immediately gets under his skin. However, while returning from a business trip, he meets a more intriguing character--the subversive Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt). They become fast friends, bonding over a mutual disgust for corporate consumer-culture hypocrisy. Eventually, the two start Fight Club, which convenes in a bar basement where angry men get to vent their frustrations in brutal, bare-knuckle bouts. Fight Club soon becomes the men's only real priority; when the club starts a cross-country expansion, things start getting really crazy. Like Tyler Durden himself, director David Fincher's FIGHT CLUB, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, is startlingly aggressive and gleefully mischievous as it skewers the superficiality of American pop culture. Outstanding performances by Norton and Pitt are supported by a razor-sharp script and an arsenal of stunning visual effects that include computer animation and sleight-of-hand editing. One of the most unique films of the late 20th century, FIGHT CLUB is a pitch-black comedy of striking intensity. [More]
Starring: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham-Carter, Meat Loaf
Starring: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham-Carter, Meat Loaf, Jared Leto, Zach Grenier, Richmond Arquette
Director: David Fincher
Director: David Fincher
Screenwriter: Jim Uhls
Producer: Art Linson, Ceán Chaffin, Ross Bell
Composer: Dust Brothers
Reviews for Fight Club
Its effectiveness lies in the timing of shock moments that invariably threaten to make you laugh, despite the political incorrectness of it all.
In the end, Fincher’s brilliant film is, ironically, short in the cojones department.
The movie is not only anti-capitalism but anti-society, and, indeed, anti-God.
The cool charisma of Norton and Pitt is ... vital in seducing us, and both actors carry themselves confidently while speaking their dialogue with tough, throaty assurance.
The last great male-centric movie of the last millennium just arrived on a spectacular new Blu-ray disc for its 10th anniversary, providing the opportunity to relish every aspect of David Fincher's ultimate dissection of Gen-X masculinity. Fight Club
Fight Club is still today a definitive film, a statement as strong as any rock anthem and twice as packed with power chords.
One of the seminal films of the 1990s...just as darkly funny, epic, and psychically wrenching as ever. [Blu-ray]
"Fight Club" is a cinematic Hail-Mary pass from David Fincher that the audience desperately wants to catch.
May also be yet another example of a book that was just fine as a book -- that didn't need to be made into a film.
I don't mind a film with a surprise ending but, rather than enhancing the film, the climactic revelation in Fight Club cancels out everything previously seen. In fact, the bitter end of the film is a hypocritical cop-out.
Durden is so intense, focused and honestly violent that the messianic hold he has on his followers is palpable. It's one of the best things that Pitt has done and his performance helps to recommend the film.
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