Average Rating: 7.3/10
Reviews Counted: 149
Fresh: 120 | Rotten: 29
Solid acting, amazing direction, and elaborate production design make Fight Club a wild ride.
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 27
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 10
Solid acting, amazing direction, and elaborate production design make Fight Club a wild ride.
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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
Oct 15, 1999 Wide
Jun 6, 2000
20th Century Fox
All Critics (149) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (130) | Rotten (30) | DVD (44)
[A] bold, inventive, sustained adrenaline rush of a movie...
Delivers a sucker punch to the audience and then pulls the rug out from under it. It is sensational.
Affliction is a better film, because it brings us into the hearts and minds of its characters rather than just bludgeoning us with its visions.
Edward Norton gives another extraordinary performance!
An original piece of filmmaking!
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.
A shrewd, scintillating work rooted in an investigation of varying degrees of masculinity and extremism.
Lurid, twisted, and violent. Not for kids.
where Taxi Driver sees the fallacy in canonizing Travis Bickle, Fight Club does it without irony.
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
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.
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.
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.
Vibrant and funny, but more than a bit muddle-headed.
An exciting, dangerous, and intense story.
You can call [it] irresponsible. Or you can call it the only essential Hollywood film of 1999.
It might not be as controversial as it was back in 1999, but it's definitely just as relevant.
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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Pitt bronco-rides through the movie, using many of the nutsy-dangerous mannerisms he previously unloosed in 12 Monkeys. It's the performance you'd expect Pitt to give, and still you can't take your eyes off it.
The message is simple. Get off your ass and go do something so you don't end up like one of the aimless brainwashed followers in this movie. Too bad most people misinterpret the real meaning of this essentially dark comedy.
October 16, 2011Super Reviewer
Fincher's 'Fight Club' rightly takes it's place in popular film history as a classic must see. It had many levels and layers to it, which seem deeper each time I view it. The attention to detail, the transformation in Ed Norton's character, the growth in power, the bigger picture, the manipulation all crafted toward
March 22, 2007Super Reviewer
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