Eerily Prophetic

Rating: 9/10 (4 March 2003)

This is one of those in your face controversial movies that has a lot of high minded and loud things to say about the state of society and gender roles and violence in the media and escapism and capitalism, starred hot to trot actors of the moment (Brad Pitt and the wonderfully droll Edward Norton), featured a change of pace role for the exquisite Helene Bonham Carter, was directed by a man almost too stylish and too smart for his own good (David Fincher), and was adapted from an equally warped book. Darkly funny, ultra-violent, and sometimes scary, this is for people with strong stomachs and hungry minds.
(POTENTIAL SPOILER) If you don't think this movie is as relevant in the post 9/11 era as it was when it first bombarded movie theaters, just take take a look at the closing scene before the credits where skyscrapers come tumbling down thanks to some terrorist bombs. It was gut dropping then, and seems eerily prophetic and on-target now.