Fantastic but flawed

Rating: Null/10 (27 June 2001)

This has to be one of the most important movies of the 90's. It is well made and beautifully acted by all even Meat Loaf. No other actor could have played Tyler and The Narrator better than Pitt and Norton. It is definitely a movie designed to get your attention and make you have an opinion about it. Not an easy watch if you are sensitive in nature but I loved the black comedy in it. However I feel that the film loses its way about 3/4 of the way through. It really has something to say and then presents a plot twist that while clever is distracting. The irony of all the slogans Durden spouts is that this film takes the p**s out of those films that claim to offer a message.
==SPOILERS=I have read several reviews here about people saying the plot twist doesn't work. Maybe they watched a different version because only an idiot could think it doesn't. It is even explained to you.The Narrator invents Tyler. In any scene where they are together no one ever makes eye contact with Tyler if Narrator is talking and vice versa. The reason we never see some things is because some things happen offscreen and its the Narrator doing it anyway. Thats why he wakes up one day and says" I don't know how long I've been asleep". Does every little thing have to be explained to you children onscreen. A clockwork orange is certainly similiar in its intentions but Fight Club has much more relevant things to say..... for a while.