A sardonic satire that gets under your skin and works on multiple viewings.

Rating: 8/10 (16 March 2018)

To say this is a film solely about grown men punching one another is like saying 'Dances With Wolves' is about a bloke and his pet trying to win a weird cross-breed calypso competition, for the flick is actually a satire centred on our consumerism and commercialism consumed society with a successfully sardonic tone and a keen set of delightfully devious twists and turns, the least of which being its focal reveal which is one of the most lauded and documented twists in cinematic history but is also vastly overrated in terms of why 'Fight Club (1999)' is so successful despite it being a truly clever and revolutionary reveal. It's the taut pacing and screw-tightening screenplay that ratchets up both the tension and confusion, the perfect performances that sell the sometimes silly seeming goings-on and the perfectionist grimy direction that points the viewer in one direction while doing something vastly important in the other that all add up to make the experience a lasting and memorable one that feels as though it has something to say, gets under your skin and works on multiple viewings to equally successful effect. 8/10