A little heavily done

Rating: Null/10 (18 November 2000)

Fight club seems to fit into a genre of end of century, nihilistic Xer stories of which Extension du Domaine de la Lutte (US title Whatever) and American Beauty are others.
Compared to the book it is perhaps a little heavily done and leads the viewer too much by the hand. Maybe that is one of the restrictions of making films of which the main audience is American. However it did remain very faithful to the spirit of a brilliant and disturbing book.
Changing the ending was simply gratuitous, was this what the preview audiences or the studio demanded for a major release or was it the idea of the director all along?
A book which captures the zeitgeist, it is perhaps a little early to say whether it will be a classic in ten or even fifty years time or just a curio.