this is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time

Rating: 10/10 (7 September 2000)

Wow. What a movie. Please don't deprive yourself of this amazing spectacle of filmmaking. Like many others I made the mistake of not seeing this film based on bad reviews and my friends' opinions, thinking to myself "why would I want to see a bunch of guys beat the hell out of each other for two hours?" How wrong they were, and how wrong I was. The actual "Fight Club" itself is a prop for the characters to explore the seamy underbelly of the shallow existence of 1990's corporate America. I remember years ago a film by the name of Blade Runner opened up to bad reviews and eventually flopped at the box office, but now it is hailed as a revolutionary, groundbreaking piece of sci-fi cinema. I feel that as more and more people become exposed to fight club it will achieve this status as well. See it as soon as possible so that years from now when your friends talk about what a vitally important movie this is in the landscape of American cinema, you can say you knew about it all along.