Entertaining but overrated.

Rating: 9/10 (27 December 2007)

Fight Club (1999)
"How much do you know about yourself, if you 've never been in a fight"
Tyler Durden
Fight Club has been hailed by audiences and critics alike. I can see why. It's iconic, it's compelling and it is stylish. David Fincher's camera work is beautiful, he really captures some great sequences - and the editing is superb, scenes roll together in their raw, punchy nature, the film is good.
As much as I can praise the style and nature of 'Fight Club', its modern 'Clockwork Orange' approach, I cannot see this film as a masterpiece. Why not? Well it doesn't have much. It's visually stimulating, it has good acting and technical aspects, but not much else.
Cutting to the chase , 'Fight Club' is about an urban loner (Edward Norton) who is fed up with his boring life. On a trip he meets a soap salesman played by Brad Pitt (this man does not actually exist, it's his alter ego). After Norton's apartment is burned down, he contacts Durden (Pitt) and he moves in with him into a disgusting, run down estate. Slowly, they start the FIGHT CLUB. More and more members join across the USA and more and more attacks are carried on Blue Chip companies.
As Norton spirals into paranoia, he runs away from this business of anti-social leadership, when things get strange. He realises he is Tyler Durden and finally shoots himself through the brain to kill his second personality, just in time to observe the beautifully crafted explosions of the city skyscrapers.
It's engaging, but not great. It is a interesting film and leave it at that.
7/10