You are not ready for Fight Club

Rating: 10/10 (14 October 1999)

Fight Club. I'd read the book (twice), but it still didn't prepare me for seeing it. It's brilliant, jarring, amazing -- and I can't recommend it to anyone. Put simply, you are not ready for Fight Club. These are images and ideas that you are not ready to handle. Where's the choreographed fights, the romantic subplot, the happy ending? Not here. I counted three or four walkouts at the preview screening I attended. Upset that you paid $9 for the cinematic equivalent of a punch to the gut? Sorry. This movie is disturbing in the best sense of the word. And funny as hell. Can't figure out that knawing feeling? The discontentment, the anger, the insanity of day-to-day life? Fight Club will show you, even if it has to beat it out of you. Want a nice night out at the movies? Don't go. Want more? Do you need more? Then put up your dukes and join in.