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Fight Club

Fight Club (1999)

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Average Rating: 7.3/10
Reviews Counted: 150
Fresh: 121 | Rotten: 29

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

64

Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 10

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

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Average Rating: 4.2/5
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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, 2 hr. 19 min.

Drama, Comedy

Jim Uhls

Jun 6, 2000

20th Century Fox

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All Critics (152) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (131) | Rotten (30) | DVD (44)

This is American self-absorption at its finest.

May 11, 2012 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
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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Delivers a sucker punch to the audience and then pulls the rug out from under it. It is sensational.

June 18, 2002 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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Fight Club rolls out its indictments and its Zen koans, but what it really resembles, perhaps unknowingly, is the squall of a whiny and essentially white-male generation that feels ruined by the privileges of women and a booming economy.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: New York Magazine | Comments (18)
New York Magazine
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If, as Fincher has said, this movie is supposed to be funny, then the joke's on us.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comments (2)
Entertainment Weekly
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A bloody, hilarious ride into the twisted recesses of the modern male psyche.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Comment
Chicago Tribune
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A shrewd, scintillating work rooted in an investigation of varying degrees of masculinity and extremism.

April 22, 2011 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | Comment
Lessons of Darkness

Lurid, twisted, and violent. Not for kids.

December 14, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comments (5)
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 | Comment (1)
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 | Comment (1)

A terrific Blu-ray release that will keep Fight Club misread as a nihilistic paean to violence%u2014or as a celebration of hyper-masculinity%u2014for years to come.

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

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
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 | Comment (1)
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 | Comment (1)

"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 | Comment (1)
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 (6)
eFilmCritic.com

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.

July 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | Comments (31)
Big Picture Big Sound

Vibrant and funny, but more than a bit muddle-headed.

June 27, 2006 Full Review Source: Cinemania | Comment

An exciting, dangerous, and intense story.

May 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comments (2)
Combustible Celluloid

You can call [it] irresponsible. Or you can call it the only essential Hollywood film of 1999.

January 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment (1)

It might not be as controversial as it was back in 1999, but it's definitely just as relevant.

July 5, 2005 Full Review Source: Bullz-Eye.com | Comment
Bullz-Eye.com

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.

April 9, 2005 Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | Comment (1)
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March 31, 2005 Full Review Source: MTV | Comment

One of the greatest films ever made

March 20, 2005 Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star | Comments (34)
Arizona Daily Star
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Audience Reviews for Fight Club

David Fincher has made a successful career with a few but powerful titles, like 'SE7EN' and 'The Social Network'. However, his most recognised and well respected film is 'Fight Club'. His direction has lead to a dark and intense picture which is based around the ideas of mayhem and anarchy. This hard hitting film stars

May 10, 2012
Samuel Riley
Samuel Riley

Super Reviewer

Violently liberating. It is too powerful in its themes, and the philosophical backbone just might be too much for everyone else, but it's there to great effect, a wild journey through the ills of our existence. An unforgettable impression. Fight Club's gun points straight at you, and forced to examine your life and

May 7, 2012
Adriel Lim

Super Reviewer

    1. Tyler Durden: Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
    – Submitted by Angela T (7 days ago)
    1. Tyler Durden: It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
    – Submitted by Angela T (7 days ago)
    1. Tyler Durden: Now the passing etiquette. Do I give you the ass or the crotch?
    – Submitted by J P (14 days ago)
    1. Tyler Durden: God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
    – Submitted by Justin S (15 days ago)
    1. Tyler Durden: Fuck damnation, man! Fuck redemption! We are God's unwanted children? So be it!
    – Submitted by Justin S (15 days ago)

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