A good film; NOT a great film.

Rating: 7/10 (19 April 2002)

"Fight Club" is a very good movie, but it is held up much higher than it deserves to be. It currently ranks at #33 on the IMDb top 250, so you can understand why my mind was blown when an IMDb user actually called this movie "underappreciated". The truth is that it's OVERappreciated. "Fight Club" is not the groundbreaking, sensational work of genius many fans call it. There aren't any stagerringly original ideas, apart from Fight Club itself. The film is pointlessly overlong, with a ridiculous ending that was not at all needed. So I see no reason why anyone would ever think that this movie was underappreciated. It's obviously not the case. However, it is superbly directed, well-written, and well-acted, so I fell good giving it a rating of 7/10.