gruesome and grubby

Rating: Null/10 (12 March 2001)

David Fincher's "Fight Club" is a pretty grubby film.The violence is extremely graphic and, a lot of the time, totally unnecessary. Seven minutes has been trimmed from the film here in Australia - whether by the Commonwealth censor, or the local distributor, I don't know. What I do know is that even in its truncated form, I can understand why it was cut so heavily. Then again, I saw it on video, and maybe it was the cinema version that had the seven minutes removed. Either way, the logic that men can find meaning in their lives by beating the crap out of each other, seems ridiculous to this viewer. If the film follows the book, it's one book I won't bother reading. And, after watching "Fight Club", I wish I hadn't bothered hiring that, either.