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Fight Club (1999)

tomatometer

80

Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 158
Fresh: 127 | Rotten: 31

Solid acting, amazing direction, and elaborate production design make Fight Club a wild ride.

64

Average Rating: 6.1/10
Critic Reviews: 33
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 12

Solid acting, amazing direction, and elaborate production design make Fight Club a wild ride.

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95

liked it
Average Rating: 4.2/5
User Ratings: 965,529

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Movie Info

In this darkly comic drama, Edward Norton stars as a depressed young man (named in the credits only as "Narrator") who has become a small cog in the world of big business. He doesn't like his work and gets no sense of reward from it, attempting instead to drown his sorrows by putting together the "perfect" apartment. He can't sleep and feels alienated from the world at large; he's become so desperate to relate to others that he's taken to visiting support groups for patients with terminal

R,

Drama, Comedy

Jim Uhls

Jun 6, 2000

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All Critics (158) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (127) | Rotten (31) | DVD (44)

It is working American Beauty-Susan Faludi territory, that illiberal, impious, inarticulate fringe that threatens the smug American center with an anger that cannot explain itself, can act out its frustrations only in inexplicable violence.

April 22, 2013 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine
TIME Magazine
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Blistering, hallucinatory, often brilliant, the film by David Fincher is a combination punch of social satire and sociopathology.

April 22, 2013 Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Fight Club is an arresting, eventually appalling excursion into social satire by way of punishing violence.

April 22, 2013 Full Review Source: Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
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We're meant to take the male bonding and the blood rituals as a protest against the sterility of corporate life and modern design, but Fincher's sadomasochistic kicks overwhelm any possible social critique.

April 22, 2013 Full Review Source: New Yorker
New Yorker
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This is American self-absorption at its finest.

May 11, 2012 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment (1)
Chicago Reader
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[A] bold, inventive, sustained adrenaline rush of a movie...

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety | Comments (2)
Variety
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Fight Club jettisons its sense of humour 60 minutes in, and, so far from satirising the tiresome "crisis of masculinity" stuff sloshing around the airwaves either side of the Atlantic, the film simply endorses it.

April 22, 2013 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK]
Guardian [UK]

Wildly inventive, exceptionally cast and undeniably controversial, there's an endless list of subtexts and viewpoints which will fuel student pub debates for years.

April 22, 2013 Full Review Source: Total Film
Total Film

A controversial satire and a contemporary classic.

April 22, 2013 Full Review Source: Film4
Film4

A movie that wants to keep its audience unsettled from beginning to end.

April 22, 2013 Full Review Source: Baltimore Sun
Baltimore Sun

There's many levels of brilliance to this film, from the script to the acting to the cinematography to the overall directing.

July 21, 2012 Full Review Source: 7M Pictures
7M Pictures

A shrewd, scintillating work rooted in an investigation of varying degrees of masculinity and extremism.

April 22, 2011 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | Comments (2)
Lessons of Darkness

Lurid, twisted, and violent. Not for kids.

December 14, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comments (10)
Common Sense Media

where Taxi Driver sees the fallacy in canonizing Travis Bickle, Fight Club does it without irony.

November 29, 2010 Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | Comments (3)
Film Freak Central

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</

November 26, 2009 Full Review Source: AskMen.com | Comments (3)

A complex, confused look at life in late-'90s America, David Fincher's blood-black comedy Fight Club remains one of the most divisive pictures of the past 20 years.

November 24, 2009 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment (1)
Slant Magazine

Fight Club is still today a definitive film, a statement as strong as any rock anthem and twice as packed with power chords.

November 21, 2009 Full Review Source: PopMatters | Comments (3)
PopMatters

One of the seminal films of the 1990s...just as darkly funny, epic, and psychically wrenching as ever. [Blu-ray]

November 14, 2009 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | Comments (2)
Groucho Reviews

"Fight Club" is a cinematic Hail-Mary pass from David Fincher that the audience desperately wants to catch.

April 12, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | Comments (2)
ColeSmithey.com

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.

February 3, 2008 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comments (7)
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Audience Reviews for Fight Club

An absolutely brilliant thrill ride of a movie. Its one of those mind benders where the more you think about it, the greater it gets. Its funny, brutal, sadistic and a true masterpiece. One of my favorites.
July 8, 2012
Dr114
Chris Miele

Super Reviewer

Topping my personal list of favorite movie endings of all time, Fight Club (1999, USA) is an adaptation from a Chuck Palahniuk novel of the same name that scolds and retaliates. Delivering a dark yet comical philosophy, Fight Club is revolutionary - dare say way ahead of its time, perhaps also in our time. A brilliant masterpiece of modern cinema.
January 31, 2013
Jan Marc Macababayao

Super Reviewer

    1. Tyler Durden: I am profoundly vanilla.
    – Submitted by Jesse K (2 months ago)
    1. Tyler Durden: The first rule of project mayhem is you do not ask questions.
    – Submitted by Hayden K (2 months ago)
    1. Tyler Durden: You don't know where I've been, Lou. (Laughing hysterically) You don't know where I've been!
    – Submitted by Redwan A (4 months ago)
    1. Tyler Durden: It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
    – Submitted by Alex A (4 months ago)
    1. Tyler Durden: What's that smell?
    – Submitted by Redwan A (4 months ago)
    1. Tyler Durden: Would you like to say a few words to mark the occasion ?
    2. Narrator: [mumbles]
    3. Tyler Durden: I'm sorry...
    4. Narrator: I still can't think of anything.
    5. Narrator: Ah... flashback humour.
    – Submitted by Andrew C (5 months ago)

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