The best film I have seen in ages

Rating: Null/10 (21 July 2000)

STAR RATING:*****Unmissable****Very Good***Okay**You Could Go Out For A Meal Instead*Avoid At All Costs
This is my second attempt to get my review of this,one of my favourite films in ages,across,and,having purchased a copy today,I once again absorbed what a tremendously defiant piece of modern urban literature this is.Fight Club scoops up the sad,soulless air of generation surrounding us in the nineties better than any other modern artie film around.Not a scene really goes by when the entertainingly bleak,unashamedly honest depiction of any modern society's ceaseless decline into mediocrity is'nt captured.
Psyical,hand-to-hand violence is really the main sort of violence that's destroying what I can see of society today.Yet,as the twist towards the end unravels,we responsibly learn that we all deep in our hearts probably think and feel like Tyler Durden does,but that if we really exacted that kind of revenge upon society,it would really get totally worse,and we should count our blessings for at least the safe world we live in.Sort of a quiet warning to many of the audience members who feel like Edward Norton's character Jack does.
But,on the other hand,another lesson of this film is that you should never think you're any better than anyone else no matter what.Someone with a degree in social science may more than likely have a better payed,more renowned job title than someone who collects litter,but no matter what,they're both still people,with the same feelings,and the same acknowledgement to pain.Really,films like Fight Club can make a difference in more ways than one ,depending on which way you interpret them.Imperfections and the rat race may decline if films like this are taken as seriously as they can be,but some idiots in the audience will obviously be as inclined as ever to think that physical,and other violence is the answer to everything,and observational literature like this will of course go completely to miss.
Meat Loaf fares his best ever post-singing performance in this,as Jack's slightly dumb,impressionable friend,although as he's not the main star of the show,he does,as ever,get very limited screen time.By the end,virtually all the members have become and accepted their posistions as soulless,plodding drones,who're happier to be like that with this cult than they would be with any thing society has to offer them.
But the exceptionally good film it is,remember Fight Club is only a movie at the end of the day.Soon,hollywood will make others,spend ages making you wait anticipating the completion of it's production,make you wait further for their release date,promote it until you can't get it out of your face,then you'll see it,they'll take your money,you might think it was all a waste of time,they or the cinema manager's don't care,then the process will repeat itself,again,and again,and again,etc.etc.etc............*****