Not What You Expect

Rating: 8/10 (5 June 2000)

I agreed with my husband to rent this movie if he would also rent a "chick flick" for me! I was very pleasantly surprized by this movie. Edward Norton is wonderful as always, spinning his character's web around the viewer until Wham...he gets you! Helena Bonham Carter was outrageous! I think of her in period pieces like Room With A View, Howard's End or Twelfth Night. She is the perfect anti-social, bi-polar, opinionated, cheap chic urban wench. Brad Pitt was "over the top" (even his clothes are oddly in your face) as the fight club co-founder -which was exactly the right portrayal. Meatloaf was also notable as Bob.
The final minutes of the film, you begin to put it all together along with Norton and wonder why you never saw it before! I usually can spot a plot twist a mile off but this was superbly done. Don't miss this movie because you think it will be just another testosterone flood.