Fight Club will blow you away

Rating: 10/10 (11 November 1999)

Fight Club is a truly great film, in my opinion the best of the year (1999). This movie shows us something we haven't seen before. Based on Chuck Palahniuk's novel, Fight Club is the depiction of how one man's search for meaning in his life develops into a sort of fascist paranoia.

While the movie looks rather simple (a bunch of guys fighting each other is what the previews depict - they are VERY misleading), Fight Club is anything but simple. Mostly it is a vicious satire of consumerist society. We see our narrator, who identifies himself as Jack (played to perfection by Edward Norton), trapped in a pointless existence revolving around buying furniture and going to support groups. Then he meets Tyler Durden, who shows him how to break free and give his life meaning. This meeting will change his life forever.
Where Fight Club goes from here is something that cannot be explained. A must-see.