Best film of 1999

Rating: 10/10 (17 December 1999)

Fight Club was produced by a major Hollywood studio. It had a budget of $60 million+. It is not your average big-budgeted studio film. In fact, it has very few qualities of a big-budgeted studio film. At it's least, it is raw, provocative, original (although a lot of Tyler Durden's philosophy is very Neitzsche-esque), idiosyncratic, and entertaining. It is commentary on consumerism, materialism, trends, addictions, office work, indentity crisis, blind faith, sheep, capitalism and everything else that makes up modern society in America (Americana). The basic outline is about a worker-bee fed up with is daily routine and doing something about it.
**** out of ****. If you can find a theater still playing it and you haven't seen it, DEFINITELY check it out.