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In 1999 we were all spoilt with some of the best films Hollywood had to offer. Amongst this soup of fantastic film came a movie so odd, deranged and fantastic that it found immediate success.

'Fight Club' was the brainchild of David Fincher in his quest to make one of his favourite novels into a film. The result was fantastic; the film exceeded all expectations. It turned out to be a novel that was hard to put in a category. Too realistic to be an action film, too crazy to be a drama, too dark to be a 'happy-go-lucky' comedy. So where does that leave the viewer???

A postmodern, black comedy dealing with the masculine need to fight and the power of one man to break through all sense of responcibility and live vicariously through an alter ego, namely 'Tyler Durden'

The film is an utter mind bend from the get go, in which the audience is treated to a montage, and trip though Jack's brain where we finally end on the barrel of a gun. There are few that can boast they saw the ending coming. I won't say if you havent seen it go and see it.

The performances are great Edward Norton is shining as ever and Brad Pitt is fantastic as Tyler Durden. Their perfomances make 'Fight Club' a great film, that could have been a sub-par film if not dealt with by actors of such a high callibre.

Well....how to conclude??? JUST SEE FIGHT CLUB!!!! See it again if you have, and see it for the first time and become hooked.
Unfortunately for me by writing this review I broke the first 2 rules of fight club.....I TALKED ABOUT FIGHT CLUB!!!!

Best of '99
fight club. what can i say? a brilliant, hyperadrenal shotgun blast into the face of dead end, ant farm, postmodern american pseudo-culure that never forgets to satirize when it proselitizes. this film puts the black into black comedy with some of the most mean spirited and hilarious comic touches of all time. seamlessly directed and flawlessly acted, fight club is a movie everyone should see. and this includes women. most of the women i know who've seen it didn't care for it, and i don't feel particularly surprised by this, since the film is overbearingly testosterone edged. it most certainly is told from the perspective of the immasculated male, and is clearly targeted towards same. however, at the same time the film deftly pokes fun at just that kind of mentality, sometimes with subtlety, sometimes, quite frankly, with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer (including an undeniable and roaringly funny homoerotic subtext that made me laugh so hard i very nearly vomited). many will tell you that, contrary to what you may have heard or gleaned about this movie, it does not glorify violence. well, actually, this is a half-truth. the film neither glorifies nor condemns violence but simply approaches it with an intelligence and a simpathetically honest eye toward the impulse to destroy, and be destroyed, that you almost never, ever see in movies anywhere; rather than getting its rocks off with it or, conversely, succumbing to the pressures to indulge in a sappy, saccharine, PSA mentality that tries only to deny the violent impulses within us all. i am jack's renewed faith in cinema.

A savage, subversive, insightful entertainment
Fight Club has to be one of the best films I have seen in years. A complex, well acted, beautifully flimed drama about one man's descent into madness, it is alive with dark humor, violent action, emotional turmoil, skillful plotting and really insightful commentary on social life and society at century's end.

Ed Norton and Brad Pitt are exceptional. As different as night and day, it isn't possible to compare their performances, but since they exist in the film as foils for one another's characters they create together a wonderful balance - an edgy give and take that is at the heart of the film's exciting dynamic. Helena Bonham Carter, free for once of the aristocratic pretensions of her usual film characters, can't begin to measure up. She doesn't have the heat on screen that Norton and Pitt bring to their parts. Meat Loaf, in a surprisingly touching characterization, brings more to the screen - in every sense - than Carter does.

It isn't fair to try and elaborate on the plot because the twists and ambiguities are a large part of the fun - and of the darker purpose of the film. But it is worthwhile to point out what the film is not; it is not a typical "guy" film. It uses the boy-centered, testosterone fueled theme of the 'fight club', a club that exists strictly for the purpose of providing guys an opportunity to fight, to make a valid critical statement about urban societ today - men feel isolated, adrift, untested, worthless and tame. Fight club gives its members confidence, provides a chance for them to express their anger and aggression, creates contact and bonding, fills the emptiness and gives them purpose. Watching the fight club go from an informal gathering for a few to a rule based movement spreading like wildfire across the country is almost surreal.

There is lots of savage humor in this film. Many of Pitt's lines and a lot of Norton's voice-over narration are both memorable and funny. But this is definitly not a comedy and not for the faint of heart. If you've got the stomach for it, this is one great entertainment and a fine serious film at the same time. I highly recommend it.

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