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Fight Club

1999

David Fincher

Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf ...

8.1

188,432

Drama. Thriller A nameless disillusioned young urban male (Edward Norton) fights insomnia by attending disease support groups until he meets a kindred spirit -and soap salesman (Brad Pitt). Together they form Fight Club, where young men can exert their frustrations and angst upon one another.

	Author	Review
United States	David Denby The New Yorker	"We're meant to take the male bonding and the blood rituals as a protest against the sterility of corporate life and modern design, but Fincher's sadomasochistic kicks overwhelm any possible social critique"	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"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 (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Carrie Rickey Philadelphia Inquirer	"Blistering, hallucinatory, often brilliant, the film by David Fincher is a combination punch of social satire and sociopathology"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Fight Club pulld you in, challenges your prejudices, rocks your world and leaves you laughing in the face of an abyss. It's alive, all right. It's also an uncompromising American classic"	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"If the first rule of Fight Club is 'Nobody talks about Fight Club,' a fitting subsection might be 'Why would anyone want to?'"	NEG
United States	Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune	"A bloody, hilarious ride into the twisted recesses of the modern male psyche"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"By the end, it has unravelled catastrophically into a strident, shallow, pretentious bore with a 'twist' ending that doesn't work (...) This just doesn't pack much of a punch."	NEG
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Visionary and disturbing (...) [Fincher] finds subject matter audacious enough to suit his lightning-fast visual sophistication, and puts that style to stunningly effective use."	POS
United States	Matt Noller Slant	"'Fight Club' is funny, scary, messy, and imperfect, and there's a reason it continues to endure. It met us at a very strange time in our lives (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Adam Smith Empire	"'Fight Club' is one movie that exactly caught the pre-millennial tension. Great performances, stunning visuals and a plot like nothing you've ever seen (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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