Where Are You Going With This? Ikea Boy.

Rating: Null/10 (12 November 2002)

Fight Club is a great film working on a number of levels. Forget "getting it" or "not getting it" - just view it and make your own mind up. It's never going to get a indifferent response - it will always be emotive, and you will love it or hate it. Probably the way it should always be with something that wants to upset the status quo and get a reaction.
Where to start? It's covers Love, Death, Greed, Black Comedy, Social Satire, Consumerism, Male Violence, Male Love, Self-Image, Self-Loathing, Self-Improvement, Masturbation, Celebrity Fighting, Waiting Tables and Pumping Gas.
As this is my first time writing one of these reviews - it's funny, you read what you wrote and it comes across as slightly "bullet point movie critic" - oh well.
For my two pence worth - a superb film that stands up to repeated viewings and should speak to you on personal level - if you are wondering about your place in today's world.
The violence seems in keeping with the anarchistic tone of the movie, and goes someway to justifying it as a natural reaction from a so-called "lost" generation. I feel it's truthful in stating that it's part of our nature and does a good job in exploring this trait.
The film gets bleak and heavy-going in places - but has lovely moments of black comedy. Being addicted to Ikea Catalogues and Self-Help Groups made me smile, and finding your safe little Condo Life blown out onto the street must have been something.
All the performances are first-class - Director David Fincher takes a wonderful book and puts it on the screen almost word-for-word, with great care and skill. The dialogue is sharp, and the pacing fast enough to keep you interested over a fairly long film.
I think it deserves the title "first great movie of the new millennium" - but, see for yourself and make up your own mind.
Being an individual is part of the message of the movie.....