You too may be a candidate for project chaos

Rating: 1/10 (4 January 2002)

Let me just get this out of the way right off the bat -- I hated this movie. I think the initial meeting of Jack and Tyler explain how opinions of this movie are divided -- Jack says something about single serving friends, and Tyler disinterestedly dismisses his cleverness. Unfortunately, my friends, being clever for clever's sake is not entertaining and it is not art.

For those of you who loved this movie, perhaps identifying yourselves with the main character is not appropriate. The point may be that you are just one of the moronic automatons (do hyper-clever acts of terrorism, like a hyper-clever movie), so the joke's on you. You might also note that the project chaos morons are not recruited for their propensity for violence, but for their desire to think in complex and sensitive ways. Much like the fans of this movie.
I tend to rate a movie on only two criteria: Was it entertaining? and, Did I care about the characters? As both of these answers for Fight Club are definitely "NO", what am I left with? A movie with an unoriginal message, revealed in an unintellible way, full of commercials (Starbucks, Busch beer, Pepsi, to name a few), with decent acting.
Yes, the pseudo-intellegentsia are all suckers, easy prey to a little pretentiousness they identify with. In making this obvious fact a little more obvious, the movie was a success. Maybe the point was to think for yourselves, in which case the only natural reaction should be complete loathing for this film.