Bare knuckled brawling at its best.

Rating: 8/10 (17 October 1999)

David Fincher pulls out all the cinematic tricks in Fight Club. We get long shots that pull out from deep within a character, and I do mean deep and we get reality distorted so much that when reality comes back into focus, it's almost like getting slapped in the face. It's hard to talk about Fight Club without giving away its surprises. All I can say is see, it for yourself. The movie is complex and you'll be thinking about it after you've left the theater. Brad Pitt is at his best when he plays unhinged characters. Here, he gets to be unhinged and I think he's perfect in this role. He gets to be a bad boy and we revel in all of his guerilla tactics. I liked the trick he does while working at a movie theater. For all of the violence in Fight Club, there is only one death. None of the brawlers fight to the death. They might get beaten to a bloody pulp, but they live to fight another day. What do you expect from a movie that's called Fight Club?