Fight Club Reviews

If it had all continued in the vein explored in the first act, it might have become a great film. But the second act is pandering and the third is trickery.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Fight Club is an arresting, eventually appalling excursion into social satire by way of punishing violence.

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

This was a lightweight film that mistakenly thinks it's in the heavyweight class.

Full Review | Original Score: C

...an incredibly brutal and pretentious film ostensibly about alienation in a modern desensitized world, a black comedy that entertains only on the most superficial level.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

If, as Fincher has said, this movie is supposed to be funny, then the joke's on us.

Full Review | Original Score: D

If you want a movie that makes sense and doesn't make you chuckle at its sophomoric satire, laugh this one right off your list.

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It's a movie with all the warmth of a refrigerated meat locker at midnight. And who wants to hang around there?

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Instead of a nasty story with life lessons, what we have is testosterone-driven lunatics who enjoy pain, the sight of blood, and hearing bones crunch. David Cronenberg might have succeeded with the material -- David Fincher doesn't.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

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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[Fincher's] tooth and nail stylistics inherently obscure any point the film might be trying to make.

Full Review | Original Score: short

My main problem with Fight Club is that its mood and screenplay suggest an important film with something socially significant to say when in reality it's paper-thin stuff.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

Fight Club is a work of prevailing violence.

Taking every scene on an individual basis, it is often madly brilliant, but put it all together, and it is a pretentious, incoherent mess.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

An unhinged mess of a movie, with potentially dangerous ideas handled in a winking, cynical manner.

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If you like movies like "NBK" and "RD" then you must see this movie. If you don't have a strong stomach and don't like violence. Stay home. Trust me on this.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Undermines any seriousness it might have harbored with an avalanche of smirky cynicism designed to flatter the hipper-than-thou fantasies of adolescent moviegoers.

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Fight Club is a distinctively dense and often hilarious film, but in the end it's nonsense.

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Terribly underwhelming.

The movie is not only anti-capitalism but anti-society, and, indeed, anti-God.

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