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Rating: 10/10 (17 January 2000)

There isn't really a way to tell you exactly what "Fight club" is. Some might say it's a black-comedy, others might call it a social drama, others, a social comedy. I'm not sure which of those adjectives describe the movie best but the adjective "One of the 5 best movies of the year" sure qualifies. Another one would be "One of Norton's best performance's ever". In fact, it's probably his best after the one he gave in "American history X". And yet another way to qualify it would be "By far David Fincher's best movie yet". Yes, "Fight club" is an excellent movie and true entertainment. Plus, there are great performances by Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter and Meat Loaf and great direction by David Fincher.
The story is narrated by Edward Norton whose name seems to be Jack although he is never called like that by anyone leaving us in doubt. He explains how he thought his life was a total bore and how he joined certain groups like groups for people with testicular cancer just to make friends. This is where he meets Bob (Meat Loaf) and befriends him. However, at some point, he sees a woman named Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter) in all those groups and guesses she has none of the problems the people attending the reunions have. However, Jack doesn't either. So they make a deal so that they do not meet again: every week, they go to she goes to certain groups while he goes to other groups so they won't see each other.
Weeks go by without anything really happening and one day, on a plane, Jack meets a man who calls himself Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt). Tyler sells soap for a living. After the plane lands, the two men each go their own way but when Jack gets home, he sees that his apartment has been blown-up and decides to call Tyler to ask him if he might have a free bed at his house. They decide to go to a bar and after three pitchers of beer, they are approaching the bar's closing time and go outside. This is when, out of the blue, Tyler asks Jack to hit him. The two men finally end up fighting for real and seem to get some kicks out of it and after a while, they decide to form a fight club whose two principal rules are "You do not talk about Fight club".
The movie starts off right in the action and never lets the viewer down. Jim Ulhs's screenplay is excellent. David Fincher also uses a few slow motions to add a certain intensity to the scene. The music by the Dust brothers is excellent and the other songs used are excellent as well. However, as good as everything about this movie is, nothing beats Edward Norton's performance. He is simply incredible. Over here in Canada, the movie got the harshest rating which is "18 and over" and did deserve because although there isn't only violence in this movie, it is very graphic and depicted as it is just when it happens to a person. Also, the violence shown is especially during the fights and no one dies in these fights. It isn't for the faint-hearted and has a disappointing ending but if you can get to gather all the courage you have to watch this one, you'll see you'll be glad you saw it.