First rule of Fight Club...

Rating: 10/10 (24 October 1999)

...Go see this movie. While "AlienÂ³" and "The Game" were merely above average, Fincher did impress me considerably with "Seven," which I consider to be a masterpiece in its own right. "Fight Club" is every bit as good as "Seven," perhaps better. On the surface, it seems pretentious and adolescent (which it is to an extent...but that's to be expected in a movie about guys beating the c**p out of each other). But once you get beyond the shocks his is a movie with a lot to say that pulls out all the stops in saying it.
Although I haven't read the novel (yet), I must say that Uhls' script is amazingly well-crafted, considering the convoluted nature of the story. As the angry, enigmatic Tyler Durden, Pitt once again proves that he's at his best as a psycho (like in another favorite of mine, "12 Monkeys"), and the chameleon-like Norton delivers another charged, convincing performance. Even though Carter also gives a good performance the entire character seems to disrupt the flow of the story in parts, which is the only real weak point in the movie.
When the smoke clears, "Fight Club" functions as a scathing satire on pretty much everything status quo. This is more than Kafka for the (post-)MTV generation, though...it's a genuinely thought-provoking film that is as darkly funny as it is disturbing.