"Fight Club" is a cinematic Hail-Mary pass from David Fincher that the audience desperately wants to catch.
Fight Club (1999)
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Reviews Counted: 125
Fresh: 101
Rotten:24
Average Rating: 7.3/10
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
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Reviews for Fight Club
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.
...more clever and kinetic than it is profound, more a visceral movie than a think piece.
In the future, all manner of society's ills in the future will be blamed on this movie. [But] this is a film that exposes evil, not one that glorifies it.
It's a movie with all the warmth of a refrigerated meat locker at midnight. And who wants to hang around there?
Lobs punishing combinations at the flabby midsection of life in the 1990s. But as the film wears on, it’s apparent that Fincher can’t deliver the knockout blow.
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