Fantastic and interesting plot, insane twists, and good acting

Rating: 9/10 (16 May 2000)

"Fight Club" is one of those truly original movies. There aren't any other movies like it. Brad Pitt plays Tyler Durdan, a colorful and insane projectionist/soap-dealer/fighter/waiter with a crazy attitude towards life. He urinates in his customers meals, adds pornography into children's movies, and uses human fat stolen from the liposuction clinic to make his soap. Edward Norton plays the narrator, a timid worker with a chronic sleeping disorder, numerous unnecessary self-help groups, no life, and a huge collection of Swedish specialty furniture. They finally meet on an airplane, when the narrator's coming back from a business trip. The narrator's condo blows up from gas and he moves in with Durdan. Tyler lives in an industrial neighborhood in a decrepit sagging wreck. The two of them have a brawl in parking lot and truly enjoy it. Several guys see them fighting and join in. Thus, Fight Club is born. Every Saturday a group of men gets together in the basement of a bar and beat the crud out of each other. Durdan and the narrator are co-founders and they come up with crazy goals, assignments, rules, and projects for Fight Club. The club mutates and things start to get confusing. The plot then has a major, completely unexpected twist towards the end that turns the story upside down. "Fight Club" is a fascinating conveyance of a story, and it is definitely worth seeing.