It's not what it seems

Rating: 10/10 (26 July 2017)

Fight Club is one of those rare films that come along once in a blue moon, a film that challenges the very limits of your mind and hits all the correct notes in doing so.
Brad Pitt gives the performance of a lifetime playing Tyler Durden, but all is not as it seems. The nameless narrator of Fight Club played by Edward Norton asks more questions than it cares to answer, but wait for it, your answer will come in due course, and while you're waiting for this revelation to arrive, you'll be gripped by a stylish, well crafted piece of film-making that will keep you hooked throughout.
Tyler Durden is the kind of man you dream about, but never ever want to be , a dirty, downright detestable human being who has no morals and carries with him an irresistible thirst for self destruction.
How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?
A fair question that Tyler soon sets out to answer, weaving his way through society picking out the lowest of the low and those with an appetite for destruction, forming the secret Fight Club.
First rule of Fight Club, don't talk about Fight Club!
Inevitably the thirst to fight, reverting back to our primitive instincts, wasn't enough for Tyler, and he and his assembled group of disciples set out onto a wave of crime to try and scratch the ever growing itch.
There was a difficult to get your head round, on-off romance involving Tyler and the narrator with Marla Singer, a mentally unstable woman whom the narrator met at a self help group that the both of them attended. This three way romance tied into the film's twist, but I'm not going to spoil it for you.
On a side note, I thought Brad Pitt's "soap making scheme" was pretty cool albeit grotesque, one particular scene that stands out for me was when Tyler and the narrator went to the dumpster at the back of the doctors to fish out some "ingredients" for Tyler's soap venture, nice!
A tasteless work of cinematic art, a new and inventive way of telling a story painted onto the silver screen. It was so good because it dared to be different and boy did it pay off, plus the overall acting quality was superb, the story was superb and the film's legendary twist pushed it onto a whole new level that was previously uncharted.
One of the top film's of all time, if you haven't seen it then why not, essential viewing for any budding film fan.