Quite a surprise...

Rating: Null/10 (2 November 1999)

I went into the Fight Club not knowing that it was made from a book and with rather low expectations (I wasn't planning on seeing it) and I thought it was going to be something random and bloody about a bunch of guys who got together and beat the crap out of each other as some sort of perverse ritual of social release and male bonding. Which it was, except for the fact that that only covered the first 40 minutes or so, at which point it got interesting. Overall, quite well done. I have to say that it's one of the first movies in a fairly decent amount of time that I've seen which was totally and absolutely unpredictable. I would also say that it managed to be probably the single best example of the cyberpunk movement that I've ever seen on film, without having even a single computer in it (or at least any of any import). This was most likely entirely unintentional, but very cool nonetheless. Definitely worth my $8.50