a wild ride that left me shaking!

Rating: 10/10 (26 October 1999)

WOW! I anticipated the opening of Fight Club for several months, mainly for the superficial reason of seeing Jared Leto on the big screen, that's my true confession...however, I was bowled over, blown away and left physically shaken by this powerful flick! I was captivated from frame one and never blinked until the final credits...what a brilliant work, masterfully written, acted, shot, edited--it's all good!! Lucky enough to see a sneak preview the night before the movie actually opened, I was a bit apprehensive about the violence--I typically don't see films that are laden with excessive violence but, this form of violence in it's most primal form was not offensive to me! The only film that came to mind as I watched Fight Club was A Clockwork Orange (much more disturbing to me) but this one takes you so much further...all the next day the images were still etched in my mind or on my eyes, I felt like I was looking through them as I went about my day...brilliant social commetary, great acting, and interesting twists that are at once foreign to us yet hit so close to home!! see it now! :)