Flashback Humour- Stay Alert

Rating: Null/10 (15 October 1999)

See it now. Don't wait 'til it's in the discount theatre or at the video store. If you've read the book, the movie sticks pretty closely and even surpasses it at some points (except the very ending is completely different- FYI Don't let anyone tell you the ending). Brad Pitt is hilarious, Edward Norton is great. Sure, it's violent, but it's for violence's sake (as opposed to entertainment's). My only qualm would be the after effects of the film: pretentious college students analysing scenes and dialogue in the lobby, and genius pre-teens missing the whole point and deciding to start their own Fight Club. There you go. It's a great movie, so says all the critics and myself. Still, though, I've got the feeling that it's makers were expecting more criticism. Oh well, I'm sure they'll appreciate anything Rev. Falwell will say (probably comment on the homosexual undertones).